Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530318254Author Pall Thormod MorrissonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up...

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Western tales of the marvelous and the strange have dominated much of the narrative literatures of the premodern Muslim world. The quintessential collection, The Thousand and One Days, was first published in the early eighteenth century by French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814348635Author Cathy Yue WangFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University Press

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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...

Born into a wealthy and privileged family in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland (1824-1903) showed a clear interest in the supernatural and occult literature during his youth. Legend has it that, soon after his birth, an old Dutch nurse carried him up...

Every culture in the world has a version of the story of Cinderella. Surveying thousands of tellings of what is perhaps the most popular fairy tale of all time, this critical examination explores how the famous folk heroine embodies common societal...

Myth evolved into Western theater in fifth-century Athens, B.C. when mythical content and dramatic form served both as a reflection of the social structure and a record of changing ideologies characteristic of that society. In Jacobean England, more...

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...

The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television is the most comprehensive listing of writings about the vampire and related creatures covering material generated through the nineteenth and twentieth century to the present. The listings...

First published in 1975, Myth and Literature considers three points at which the concept of myth has entered modern literary imagination: the use of myth – or atleast their understanding of myth -- as a creative opening by modern writers, its exploration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811882791Author S N LinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Wispolips PublishingPublisher Wispolips PublishingWeight(grams) 354g

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Grounded in the intellectual legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry (1902–1935) and Albert Lord (1912–1991), Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century gathers reflections on what the study of oral poetry might mean today...

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The...

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of...

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of...

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the...

This concise and accessible critical introduction examines the world of popular fairy-tale television, tracing how fairy tales and their social and cultural implications manifest within series, television events, anthologies, episodes, and as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893756Author Eric Shane BryanFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g

This volume is an in-depth and exquisitely illustrated guide to the Second Age of Middle-earth, one of the least-explored periods of Arda's history.The Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age, is the follow up companion to the best-selling The...

Enjoy a collection of classical stories, culled from the greatest storytellers of all time, offering up tales of animals and other enchanted creatures to delight readers young and old. As fables, each story demonstrates a moral lesson or a piece of...

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A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894654Author Eric Shane BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g

Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition.About the AuthorUlrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen, Germany. Having served on the editorial board...