Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the...

In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the...

With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our...

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Rural narratives after Premchand remained unnoticed because of not being written in English. Rural India and Peasantry: Ethnography in stories after Premchand is a study of literary representation of rural life in a vast expanse of land designated as the...

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures seeks to "re-orient" the fairy tale across different cultures, media, and disciplines and proposes new approaches to the ever-expanding fairy-tale web in a global context...

These essays discuss various ontological and epistemological questions in moral philosophy, drawing on ideas from Platonic-Aristotelian ethics, the later Wittgenstein, and Iris Murdoch, though without seeking to weave these into any unified system. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935243823Author Susan O FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Loomis House PressPublisher Loomis House PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Examines pantomime and theatricality in nineteenth-century histories of folklore and the fairy tale.In nineteenth-century Britain, the spectacular and highly profitable theatrical form known as ""pantomime"" was part of a shared cultural repertoire and a...

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This book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. Dealing with broad variety of materials-from archived manuscripts to audio-recorded life stories...

Mythology for centuries has served as humanity's window into understanding its distant past. In our modern world, storytelling creates its own myths and legends, in media ranging from the world of television and cinema to literature and comic books,...

Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of fairy tales as narratives offering heteronormative happy...

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Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives...

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Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries and preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505130799Author Joseph PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Tan BooksPublisher Tan BooksWeight(grams) 113g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554815074Author Martin HallettFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

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This book explores the interplay of childhood and the fairy tale as they both changed character in accordance with the historical transformations of the mid-nineteenth century. While the fairy tale was instrumental in the social construction of...

A fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as 'folk' in Britain.By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more difficult to resurrect. But folk culture is all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781964992112Author Nicholas JubberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe Us

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611780376Author Bradley OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Joseph Campbell FoundationPublisher Joseph Campbell FoundationWeight(grams) 268g

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