Folklore & Mythology

In an illustrious career spanning over forty years, Americo Paredes has often set the standard for scholarship and writing in folklore and Chicano studies. In folklore, he has been in the vanguard of important theoretical and methodological movements. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420636368Author Carlos AlvarFormat PaperbackImprint Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)Publisher Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)

The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906841089Author Allan CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Association for Scottish Literary StudiesPublisher Association for Scottish Literary...

Few classical stories are as romantic as that of Jason and the Golden Fleece. The stirring tale of an adventurer who was also a disenfranchised king's son and daring sea-captain has resonated through the ages, rumbling and echoing like the clashing rocks...

This book introduces readers to the magical world of writing fairy tales. Key features of the genre are explained, top tips are given, and readers are guided through the process of writing their own story. Engaging photographs, eye-catching...

Myth Theorized provides a survey of some key figures and topics in the modern study of myth. The first part of the book discusses the psychoanalysis of myth including a chapter on the extraordinary changes that psychoanalytic theory has undergone, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578594757Author David A. LeemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink PressWeight(grams) 702g

"Scotties" are exciting, full colour information books for young readers. Each title contains a wealth of interesting facts, stimulating activities, websites and suggestions for places to visit. An 8pp pull-out black and white section with games, puzzles...

The wondrous fables of Ibn Sahula in Meshal haqadmoni, presented here in English for the first time, provide a most unusual introduction to the intellectual and social universe of the Sephardi Jewish world of thirteenth-century Spain. Ibn...

In contemporary America, myths find expression primarily in film. What's more, many of the highest-grossing American movies of the past several decades have been rooted in one of the most fundamental mythic narratives, the hero quest. Why is the hero...

Do you believe in ghosts? You don't have to believe in ghosts to appreciate the collection acclimated here-from ancestral spirits and nature spirit to y?kai, if you are looking for information on spiritual beings, this is the one book you need. Of all...

This collection of five tales and one play contains the definitive Robin Hood. They are the earliest ballads and play and still the best of the bunch. 'Robin Hood and the Monk' is the earliest surviving manuscript, dated c.1450, and is considered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786435593Author Leslie A. ScondutoFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 302g

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilisation has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763541183Author Timothy R TangherliniFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 524g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105367Author Angela CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Chinese mythology has been passed down in written and oral form over many millennia, emerging from a range of cultural traditions that often have their origins in Daoism and Buddhist religion. At times merging history and folklore, Chinese myths are rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524798024Author Aaron MahnkeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

'Galoshins' was a seasonal folk drama learned orally and performed, mostly by boys, in people's houses. They were rewarded with food or pennies. It took place on New Year's Eve ('Old Year's Night')or on Hallowe'en in central and southern Scotland at the...

Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell- these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this...

Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the fusion of mountains with the solitary old woman that produces such an enigmatic figure? And why does she...

This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its...

Legends of Maui (1910) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths anthologized by W. D. Westervelt. Paying homage to the importance of Maui across Polynesian cultures, Westervelt introduces his groundbreaking collection of legends on Hawaii's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848513129Author Cerys MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Pont BooksPublisher Gomer Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195028393Author Roy C. AmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 285g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850254099Format PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Tor Mark PressPublisher Tor Mark PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 6mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375286Author Cormac O'MalleyFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities...

The perfect introduction to the world of Korean myth and legend. Korean myths are a living and evolving part of society, in both the North and South. With the export of Korean film across the globe, K-pop, fashion, K-dramas, literature and comics there...

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in Britain, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of shared tradition, a characteristic body of folklore has thrived and endured well into the present day...

An illustrated collection of exceptional female figures in myth and legendIn the Middle Ages, some of the most popular and well-loved stories were about female saints, classical heroines, and the female protagonists of romance cycles. The portrayal of...

Yiannis Gabriel examines what ancient Greek myths can teach us about the troubles and challenges of our 'post-truth' times: environmental degradation, mass migration, war, inequality, exclusion, authoritarianism and perplexing technological possibilities...

A fascinating and frightening collection of folk tale monsters, ghosts, and other scary things that dwell in the dark.Our world is a strange place. This hauntingly illustrated book peers into the dark spaces that lie somewhere between belief and...

The practice of medicine is immersed in issues of life, death, and suffering in relation to the mortal body. Because of this, the medical profession is a fertile arena for folklore that serves to address these topics among physicians.In The Medical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815606949Author Anthony WonderleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

“Greek myths are the opposite of timeless; they are timely.” Charlotte Higgins Pegasus, the beautiful horse that could fly; Odysseus’ 10-year-long return journey from Troy; Oedipus’ inability to avoid his tragic fate of killing his father and unknowingly...

Pre-order the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years -...

Contributions by Sandra Bartlett Atwood, Nathan E. Bender, London Brickley, Eric A. Eliason, Noah D. Eliason, Tim Frandy, Robert Glenn Howard, Jay Mechling, Annamarie O'Brien Morel, Raymond Summerville, Tok Thompson, and Megan L. ZahayGuns are a...