Folklore studies / Study of myth Books
Fordham University Press Words
Book SynopsisExamines the link between our (implicit) assumptions about language and our understanding of religious phenomena. In particular, focuses on the performative and material specificity of word use in religion.Trade Review"The conversation about the modern, the religious, and the secular is not over, and this volume will push the dialogue in fruitful new directions." -- -S. Brent Plate Hamilton CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'Any more deathless questions?', Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel Part 1: What are words? 'Word as Act: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion', Michael Lambek 'The power of words and the performative context', Jacqueline Borsje 'Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing: A Study of Performative Writing', Jan Assmann 'Words and Word-Bodies: Writing the Religious Body', Loriliai Biernacki Part 2 Religious Vocabularies: 'Semantic Differences; or, "Judaism"; "Christianity"', Daniel Boyarin 'The Name God in Blanchot', Jean-Luc Nancy 'Humanism's Cry: On Infinity in Religion, and Absence in Atheism-A Dialogue with Blanchot and Nancy', Laurens ten Kate 'Intuition, Interpellation, Insight: Elements of a Theory of Conversion', Nils F. Schott 'Allowed and forbidden words: Canon and Censorship in "Grunbegriffe", "Critical terms", Encyclopaedias', Christoph Auffarth Part 3: Transmitting and Translating the Implicit 'God lisped: divine accommodation and cracks in Calvin's Scriptural voice', Ernst Van den Hemel 'Rethinking the Implicit: Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in W.Benjamin', Sergey Dolgopolski 'What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love', Jean-Luc Marion 'Jean-Luc Marion and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology', Tarek Dika Part 4: Situating Oneself via Language 'A Quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel', Asja Szafraniec 'Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics', Talal Asad 'The Rise of Literal-Mindedness', Peter Burke 'Fiction-based Religion: From Star Wars to Jediism', Markus Altena Davidsen 'Prayer: Addressing the Name', Karmen Mackendrick Part 5 Language and the Foundation of Communities 'The Words of the Martyr. Media, Martyrdom and the Construction of a Community', Pieter Nanninga "Spritual X-ray Vision": the Religio-Political Rhetoric of Abraham Kuyper', Arie L. Molendijk 'Thinking through Religious Nationalism', Roger Friedland and Kenneth B. Moss
£71.10
University of Hawai'i Press Hawaiian Mythology Hawn Mythology Paper
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University of Hawai'i Press Stories from the Marshall Islands Bwebwenato Jan Aelon Kein PALI Language Text
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University of Hawai'i Press Kamehameha
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University of Hawai'i Press The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha
Book SynopsisMany biographies of the Buddha have been published in the last 150 years, and all claim to describe the authentic life of the historical Buddha. This book starts from the opposite assumption and argues that we do not yet possess the archival and archeological materials required to compose such a biography: All we have are narratives, not facts.
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press Dialogues with a Trickster
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University of New Mexico Press The Zunis SelfPortrayals
Book SynopsisNow back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico. Selected by the Zuni people themselves, the tales told here preserve their cultural traditions - from the Zuni creation myth and the rituals of masked dances to farming and hunting practices.
£19.76
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Dine Bahane
Book SynopsisThis is the most complete version of the Navajo creation story to appear in English since the publication of Washington Matthew's Navaho Legends in 1897. Paul G Zolbrod's new translation attempts to render the power and delicacy of the oral storytelling performance on the page.
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Liverpool University Press Metamorphoses Bks 912 Classical Texts Aris
Book SynopsisOvid’s masterpiece, Metamorphoses, is a treasure-house of mythology. The complete work has been edited in four volumes by D. E. Hill. Each volume stands alone, offering the Latin text with facing prose translation and notes tracing Ovid’s sources and his influence on literature and art. This volume, the third of four, contains Books IX–XII.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionMetamorphoses - Latin Text and Parallel Translation Book IX Book X Book XI Book XIICommentary Notes on Book IX Notes on Book X Notes on Book XI Notes on Book XIIBibliographyIndex
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Watkins Media Limited The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man Book III of
Book SynopsisLadies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man.Elizabeth Barnabus is a mutineer and a murderer. So they say. The noose awaits in Liverpool as punishment for her crimes. But they’ll have to catch her first. Disguised as a labourer, Elizabeth flees west across America, following a rumour of her long-lost family. Crossing the border into the wilds of the Oregon Territory, she discovers a mustering army, a king who believes he is destined to conquer the world, and a weapon so powerful that it could bring the age of reason crashing down.In a land where politics and prophecy are one and the same, the fate of the Gas-Lit Empire may come to rest on the perfect execution of a conjuring trick…Trade Review"I find myself completely drawn in, unable to predict what will happen next.""Exhilarating... The charismatic duo at the heart of this adventure are sure to please."
£11.77
John Libbey & Co Scaled for Success
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John Libbey & Co Beasts of the Deep
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University of Tennessee Press Folklore Matters
£20.21
The University of Tennessee Press Tape Recorded Interview 2Nd Ed Manual Field Workers Folklore Oral History A Manual for Fieldworkers in Folklore and Oral History
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University of Tennessee Press Bodylore
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WW Norton & Co The Sweets of Araby
Book SynopsisFrom ancient Baghdad, recipes for, and the stories behind, exotic and unusual treats.
£14.24
MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth Gender
Book SynopsisFirst published in French in 2006, Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth contains an in-depth, paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of stories on womb memories, birth, namesaking, and reincarnation. This new English edition introduces this material to a broader audience and contains a new afterword by Saladin d'Anglure.
£26.06
MB - Cornell University Press The Partisan Muse in the Early Icelandic Sagas
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Cornell University Library Wisdom of the North
Book SynopsisWisdom of the North studies how and for what purposes proverbs were used by the composers of the sagas, thereby demonstrating how awareness of proverbial occurrences in these narratives can enable us to engage in more penetrating literary criticism of these works. The methods offered here have already been applied to the reading of other medieval texts, particularly those originating in societies marked by the presence or persistent influence of preliterate culture.
£46.80
Cornell University Press International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and
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South Dakota State Historical Society Tasunka A Lakota Horse Legend
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Greek Mythology
Book SynopsisA Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world.Trade Review"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 November 2011) "This collection of twenty eight articles on interpreting Greco-Roman culture presents a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to examining Greek mythology within the broader context of the intellectual and cultural development of the ancient world and provides an in depth discussion of the influence of traditional stories on the development of a shared historical culture." (Book News, Inc., 1 August 2011)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii List of Maps xi List of Tables xii Notes on Contributors xiii To the Reader xviii Acknowledgements xxi Glossary xxii Abbreviations xxv Approaching Myth 1 1 Thinking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through 3Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone Part I Establishing the Canon 25 2 Homer’s Use of Myth 27Françoise Létoublon 3 Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century 47Ken Dowden 4 Orphic Mythology 73Radcliffe G. Edmonds III Part II Myth Performed, Myth Believed 107 5 Singing Myth: Pindar 109Ian Rutherford 6 Instructing Myth: From Homer to the Sophists 125Niall Livingstone 7 Acting Myth: Athenian Drama 141Jean Alaux 8 Displaying Myth: The Visual Arts 157Susan Woodford 9 Platonic ‘Myths’ 179Penelope Murray 10 Myth in History 195Alan Griffiths Part III New Traditions 209 11 Myth and Hellenic Identities 211Fritz Graf 12 Names and Places: Myth in Alexandria 227Anatole Mori 13 The Myth of Rome 243Matthew Fox 14 Displaying Myth for Roman Eyes 265Zahra Newby 15 The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies 283Ken Dowden 16 Myth and Death: Roman Mythological Sarcophagi 301Zahra Newby 17 Myth in Christian Authors 319Fritz Graf Part IV Older Traditions 339 18 The Indo-European Background to Greek Mythology 341Nicholas J. Allen 19 Near Eastern Mythologies 357Alasdair Livingstone and Birgit Haskamp 20 Levantine, Egyptian, and Greek Mythological Conceptions of the Beyond 383Nanno Marinatos and Nicolas Wyatt Part V Interpretation 411 21 Interpreting Images: Mysteries, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings 413Susan Woodford 22 The Myth of History: The Case of Troy 425Dieter Hertel 23 Women and Myth 443Sian Lewis 24 Mythology of the Black Land: Greek Myths and Egyptian Origins 459Ian Rutherford 25 Psychoanalysis: The Wellspring of Myth? 471Richard H. Armstrong 26 Initiation: The Key to Myth? 487Ken Dowden 27 The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth 507Claude Calame, translated by Ken Dowden Part VI Conspectus 525 28 A Brief History of the Study of Greek Mythology 527Jan N. Bremmer Bibliography 549 Index of Texts Discussed 605 Index of Names 613 Index of Subjects 635
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Folklore
Book SynopsisA Companion to Folklore presents an original and comprehensive collection of essays from international experts in the field of folklore studies. Unprecedented in depth and scope, this state-of-the-art collection uniquely displays the vitality of folklore research across the globe.Trade Review"Covering information across time periods and continents, this truly is a multicultural and multidisciplinary approach to folklore studies." (American Reference Books Annual, 1 November 2015) “This 660-page anthology is important, containing thirty-six essays by thirty-three scholars, who represent different countries and approaches to the study of folklore.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 March 2014) “A Companion to Folkloreis nothing if not international, and this quality alone distinguishes it from most earlier reference works and makes it an important resource for the field.” (Western Folklore, 1 May 2013Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Introduction 1 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem Part I Concepts and Phenomena 7 Introduction: Concepts and Phenomena 9 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 1 The Social Base of Folklore 13 Dorothy Noyes 2 Tradition Without End 40 Francisco Vaz da Silva 3 The Poetics of Folklore 55 Amy Shuman and Galit Hasan-Rokem 4 Three Aspects of Oral Textuality 75 Peter Seitel 5 Performance 94 Richard Bauman 6 Myth-Ritual-Symbol 119 Hagar Salamon and Harvey E. Goldberg 7 Religious Practice 136 Sabina Magliocco 8 Work and Professions 154 Gertraud Koch 9 Material Culture 169 Orvar Löfgren Part II Location 185 Introduction: Location 187 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 10 Translingual Folklore and Folklorics in China 190 Lydia H. Liu 11 Japan 211 Akiko Mori 12 India 234 Sadhana Naithani 13 Oceania 248 Phillip H. McArthur 14 Folklore and Folklore Studies in Latin America 265 Fernando Fischman 15 Folklore Studies in the United States 286 Lee Haring and Regina F. Bendix 16 Dancing Around Folklore: Constructing a National Culture in Turkey 305 Arzu Öztürkmen 17 Folklore Studies In Israel 325 Dani Schrire and Galit Hasan-Rokem 18 Fulani (Peul, Fulfulde, Pulaar) Literature 349 Ursula Baumgardt 19 From Volkskunde to the “Field of Many Names”: Folklore Studies in German-Speaking Europe Since 1945 364 Regina F. Bendix 20 Finland 391 Lauri Harvilahti 21 Ireland 409 Diarmuid Ó Giolláin 22 Russia 426 Alexander Panchenko Part III Reflection 443 Introduction: Reflection 445 Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 23 Folklore and Literature 447 Cristina Bacchilega 24 Folklore and/in Music 464 Stephen D. Winick 25 Folklore and/on Film 483 Pauline Greenhill 26 Cultural Heritage 500 Valdimar T. Hafstein 27 Cultural Property 520 Martin Skrydstrup 28 Folklore: Legal and Constitutional Power 537 Alison Dundes Renteln Part IV Practice 555 Introduction: Practice Regina F. Bendix and Galit Hasan-Rokem 557 29 Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, Writing: Approaches and Methods from the Perspective of Ethnological Analysis of the Present 559 Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber 30 Imagining Public Folklore 579 Debora Kodish 31 The Institutionalization of Folklore 598 Bjarne Rogan Index 631
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University of Toronto Press The Pleasant Nights Volume 1
Book SynopsisRenowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature readers’ and seventeen proto-fairy tales. Nearly all of these stories, including classics such as ‘Puss in Boots,’ made their first ever appearance in this collection; together, the tales comprise one of the most varied and engaging Renaissance miscellanies ever produced. Its appeal sustained it through twenty-six editions in the first sixty years.This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, whichTrade Review'Beecher deserves full credit and admiration for having produced a superlative piece of work.' -- Joseph Russo Journal of Folklore Research; October 22, 2013 'Beecher has produced a handsome edition of Water's translation, and has thoroughly reworked the reference apparatus... His book is a distinctly valuable and scholarly contribution to the subject.' -- Ruth B. Bottigheimer Renaissance Quarterly vol 67:01:2014
£81.60
The University of North Carolina Press Otto Wood the Bandit The Freighthopping Thief
Book SynopsisLegions of bluegrass fans know the name Otto Wood from a ballad made popular by Doc Watson, telling the story of Wood's crimes and his eventual end. However, few know the history of this Appalachian figure beyond the version heard in song. Trevor McKenzie reconstructs Wood's life, tracing how he became a celebrated folk hero.
£17.95
University of Texas Press Frankie and Johnny
Book SynopsisWith chapters on Lead Belly, Thomas Hart Benton, John Huston, Mae West, and Sterling Brown, this innovative book presents a new argument for the centrality of African American folklore as a source of cultural expression in the 1930s.Trade ReviewMorgan's brilliant examination of race and gender in creative appropriations of the 'Frankie and Johnny' ballad furthers the discourse on how African American folk culture contributed to the unique characteristics of American modernism during the 1930s. * Journal of Southern History *A well-researched analysis of the complex intersections between African American culture and folklore and mainstream popular music and film culture of the 1930s. * Journal of American Folklore *[A] masterpiece...Frankie and Johnny showcases the talents of performers, entertainers, composers, and artists while simultaneously telegraphing the tormented rawness of unrequited fidelity...Morgan’s tireless, copious research yields rich rewards, allowing the reader an emotionally vicarious experience of a 'somebody done somebody wrong' theme. * Journal of African American History *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Frankie and Johnny Take Center Stage: African American Folk Culture in 1930s America Chapter 2. Lead Belly's Ninth Symphony: Huddie Ledbetter and the Changing Contours of American Folk Music Chapter 3. Pistol Packin' Mama: Imperiled Masculinity in Thomas Hart Benton's A Social History of the State of Missouri Chapter 4. Whiteface Marionettes: John Huston's Comic Melodrama Chapter 5. The Finest Woman Ever to Walk the Streets: Mae West's Outlaw Exploits in She Done Him Wrong Chapter 6. The Lynching of Johnny: Sterling Brown's Social Realist Critique Epilogue. African American Women's Voices and the Tightrope of Respectability Notes Index
£21.59
Duke University Press Bear with Me
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University of Toronto Press Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song
Book SynopsisNatalie Kononenko's expert translation and analysis of Ukrainian epics provides a sweeping social history of folklore that is vital to Ukrainian identity.Trade Review"This volume, with its meticulous attention to detail and comprehensive coverage of a significant aspect of Ukrainian history is the product of Kononenko’s many years of dedicated research on folklore and the folk epic, and their part in shaping the Ukrainian consciousness." -- Marian J. Rubchak, Valparaiso University * Slavic Review *"Kononenko weaves translations of entire poems directly into her historicizing analyses. This manner of presentation makes for an integrated and coherent reading experience that all who pick up this volume will appreciate." -- Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan * Journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Collection and Scholarship 2 Minstrels and Minstrelsy 3 Slavery 4 Kozak Battles 5 Khmelnytskyi 6 Everyday Life Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£54.40
University of Toronto Press A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English
Book SynopsisThis book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material culture; and within genres by ethnic groups: Anglophone and Celtic, Francophone, Indian and Inuit, and other cultural groups. The items include reference books, periodicals, articles, records, films, biographies of scholars and informants, and graduate theses. Each items is annotated through a coding that indicates whether it is academic or popular, its importance to the scholar, and whether it is suitable for young people. The introduction includes a brief survey of Canadian folklore studies, putting this work into academic and social perspective.The book covers all the important items and most minor items dealing with Canadian folklore published in English up to the end of 1979
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Stable Views Stories and Voices from the Thoroughbred Racetrack
Book SynopsisOffers an inside look at the thoroughbred racing industry through the words and perspectives of those who labour within its stables. In more than fourteen years of field research, Ellen E. McHale has travelled to gather oral narratives from those most intimately involved with racing: the stable workers, exercise riders, and horse trainers who form the backbone of the industry.
£23.96
University Press of Mississippi Dancing on the Color Line
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dancing on the Color Line is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies. Original, illuminating, and meticulously researched, Martin’s book examines texts of John Pendleton Kennedy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain, showing how these writers assimilated and employed black aesthetic strategies of ‘signifying’ and ‘double voice’ associated with the trickster figure. Martin lays the groundwork for further scholarly inquiry, particularly regarding possible lines of influence of minority American writers on modern and postmodern canonical authors and their works.” —Ed Piacentino, emeritus professor of English at High Point University and editor of Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches (University Press of Mississippi)|“Dancing on the Color Line explores the familiar world of nineteenth-century US writing about race to defamiliarize it by suggesting its hybrid nature. Through Martin’s careful readings, well-known figures emerge as deeply influenced by the aesthetics and techniques of African American storytelling, and their literature reveals multiple trickster figures who turn a critical eye on the white power that frames them. Martin’s readers encounter the fiction she discusses differently and with more attention to the complexity of the historical and literary context in which it was created.” —Kathryn McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary|“Martin has proven to be one of our most important scholars in American humor and culture. Wherever she focuses her attention, and brings to bear her critical intelligence, new insights and useful ideas emerge. Dancing on the Color Line is a thoughtful and enlightening study of the African American trickster figure. The result is a solid contribution to both African American studies and our understanding of the continuously complex nature of American humor.” —M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College and author of many works on American humor, southern culture, comic art, and William Faulkner
£65.08
University Press of Mississippi Vampires and Zombies
Book SynopsisThe vampire, with roots in medieval European folklore, and the zombie, with origins in Afro-Caribbean mythology, have both undergone significant transformations in global culture, proliferating as deviant representatives of the zeitgeist. As this volume demonstrates, distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed these undead figures to carry multiple meanings.
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University Press of Mississippi A Vulgar Art
Book SynopsisTHE FIRST EXAMINATION OF STAND-UP COMEDY THROUGH THE LENS OF FOLKLOREIn A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, leveraging the discipline''s central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize such as literature or theatre, and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So this book takes the moment of performance as its focus and shows that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience.Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian''s own community to gain larger and larger aud
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Vampires and Zombies Transcultural Migrations and Transnational Interpretations
Book SynopsisAs this volume demonstrates, distribution of vampires and zombies across time and space has revealed these undead figures to carry multiple meanings. This book - with scholars from different national and cultural backgrounds - explores the transformations that the vampire and zombie figures undergo when they travel globally and through various media and cultures.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Superman in Myth and Folklore
Book SynopsisMany studies have examined the ways in which folklore has provided inspiration for other forms of culture, especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of Steel's origins but on the culture he has helped create.Trade Review"Daniel Perretti’s Superman in Myth and Folklore (University Press of Mississippi) is a fascinating examination of the cultural and societal ramifications of the character, as seen through the eyes of a variety of admirers. [...] Perretti approaches his subject from a variety of other perspectives, making for a fascinating (if specialist) study." — DVD Choices
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Superman in Myth and Folklore
Book SynopsisMany studies have examined the ways in which folklore has provided inspiration for other forms of culture, especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of Steel's origins but on the culture he has helped create.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard Folklore and
Book SynopsisErna Brodber and Velma Pollard, two sister-writers born and raised in Jamaica, re-create imagined and lived homelands in their literature by commemorating the history, culture, and religion of the Caribbean. Drawing on interviews with the authors, this is the first book to give Brodber and Pollard their due.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sexy Like Us Disability Humor and Sexuality
Book SynopsisTakes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can laugh at their leglessness, find stoma bags sexual, discover intimacy in scars, and flaunt their fragility in ways both hilarious and serious.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Frankenstein Was a Vegetarian Essays on Food
Book SynopsisTackles topics often overlooked in foodways. Michael Owen Jones explains how we communicate through what we eat, the connection between food choice and who we are or want to appear to be, the ways that many of us self-medicate moods with foods, and the nature of disgust.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
Book SynopsisIn Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State.Trade ReviewKeagan LeJeune argues that despite the challenges of climate change, a troubled economy, and racial inequity, the idiosyncrasies of Louisiana’s geography, mythology, and people make it a place worth fighting for." - Shane Rasmussen, director of the Louisiana Folklife Center, Northwestern State University"Combining memoir with careful research, LeJeune’s work approaches the culture and landscape of Louisiana through the lens of solastalgia, a term coined by Glenn Albrecht for the feeling of homesickness when one has not left home. Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana beautifully depicts Louisiana’s folklore and traditions through the personal journey of its narrator." - Marcia Gaudet, author of Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America
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Cornell University Press Hear My Sad Story
Book SynopsisIn 2015, Bob Dylan said, I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that''s fair game, that everything belongs to everyone. In Hear My Sad Story, Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists. Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable working conditions; and calamities such as railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters. All of Polenberg's account of the songs in the book are grounded in historical fact and illuminate the social hTrade ReviewI never knew that 'Railroad Bill,' which I used to sing at summer camp, is about an African American outlaw (real name Morris) who terrorized Alabama in the 1890s. People had good reason to fear Bill, but that fear was also used as an excuse for the blatantly racist treatment of people whose only connection to him seems to have been the color of their skin. ('A number of Negroes have been arrested,' Polenberg quotes an 1895 news report. 'None of them will be permitted to go about for fear that they might sneak some information to Railroad.') Many of Polenberg's stories shed similar light on the uglier aspects of American history, and he tells them well. -- Peter Keepnews * New York Times Book Review *Polenberg writes engagingly about the Crescent City at the turn of the last century, as he does about everything he addresses in this entertaining and enlightening book. -- Jerome Clark * fRoots *This thought-provoking study will help us to delve further into the reasons why so many of America's most popular songs have concerned white and male violence while obscuring black agency and side-stepping the terrorism of racism and male supremacy. Perhaps then we can better ask the questions we might have gleaned from these songs all along. Thanks to Richard Polenberg for pulling the covers off and allowing us to think more deeply about our history when we sing the folk songs that tell my sad story. -- Michael K. Honey * Missouri Historical Review *Well researched and packed with fascinating detail, Hear My Sad Story tells more than just the origins of popular folk songs. It tells an unflinching and honest story of America. At times viciously misguided and undoubtedly ugly, the country's history has nevertheless been documented through the lenses of those who witnessed these events and passed them down to subsequent generations. Celebrated in song, the tales outlined through the book’s nearly 300 pages seem poised to continue their grip on the fabric of society as we move further away from the actual events. As history continues to unfold, there are surely those amongst us today whose interpretations of modern events will be relied upon by future songwriters to help make sense of life in our time. It’s the American tradition.. -- Jeff Strowe * PopMatters *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Streets of Laredo St. Louis1. St. Louis Blues (1914) 2. Duncan and Brady (1890) 3. Stagolee (1895) 4. Frankie and Johnny (1899) Lying Cold on the Ground5. Omie Wise (1807) 6. The Ballad of Frankie Silver (1831) 7. Tom Dooley (1866) 8. Poor Ellen Smith (1892) 9. Pearl Bryan (1896) 10. Delia's Gone (1900) Bold Highwaymen and Outlaws11. Cole Younger (1876) 12. Jesse James (1882) 13. John Hardy (1894) 14. Railroad Bill (1896) 15. Betty and Dupree (1921) Railroads16. John Henry (1870s) 17. Engine 143 (1890) 18. Casey Jones (1900) 19. Wreck of the Old 97 (1903) Workers20. Cotton Mill Blues (1930s) 21. Chain Gang Blues (1930s) 22. Only a Miner (1930s) 23. House of the Rising Sun (1930s) Disasters24. The Titanic (1912) 25. The Boll Weevil (1920s) Martyrs26. Joe Hill (1915) 27. Sacco and Vanzetti (1927) Epilogue: Hear My Sad Story
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Cornell University Press Raja Yudhisthira
Book SynopsisIn Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary polity and how the king becomes a ruler who is viewed as ritually divine. Based on his precise and empirical close reading of the text, McGrath then addresses the idea of heroic religion in both antiquity and today; for bronze-age heroes still receive great devotional worship in modern India and communities continue to clash at the sites that have beenfor millenniaassociated with these epic figures; in fact, the word hero is in fact more of a religious than a martial term.One of the most important contributions of Raja Yudhisthira, and a subtext in McGrath''s analysis of Yudhisthira''s kingship, is the revelation that neither of the contesting moieties of tTrade Review"This is a remarkable, learned work that shows great sensitivity, born of very close reading, to the epic Mahabharata as an oral performative phonomenon. Kevin McGrath's arguments for the nature of archaic kingship envisioned by the poets of the Mahabharata as one in which 'sovereignty' is of a cooperative rather than absolute nature are persuasive and eye-opening. His exposition and clarification of the ideals of kingship in the Mahabharata are masterful: a better summing up of the complexity of the picture for the modern reader could not be found. Anyone interested in Greek epic poetry from a comparative perspective and, more broadly, in Indo-European myth and poetics will profit immensely from this work." -- Roger Dillard Woodard, Andrew Van Vranken Raymond Chair of the Classics and Professor of Classics, Linguistics, and Anthropology, University of Buffalo, author of Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European AntiquityTable of Contents1. The Beginning2. Kingship The Rajasuya Sequence War as Royal Rite The Asvamedha 3. Ideals of Kingship Archaic Ideals Installation Classical Ideals 4. The End
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Cornell University Press Merlin
Book SynopsisMerlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh figure of Myrddin. He then follows Merlin as he is imagined and reimagined through centuries of literature and art, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose immensely popular History of the Kings of Britain (1138) transmitted the story of Merlin to Europe at large. He covers French and German as well as Anglophone elements of the myth and brings the story up to the present with discussions of a globalized Merlin who finds his way into popular literature, film, television, and New Age philosophy. Knight argues that Merlin in all his guises represents a conflict basic to Western societies-the clash between knowledge and power. While the Merlin story varies over time, the underlying structural tension remains the same whTrade ReviewKnight frames Merlin's career in terms of the different functions he performs in successive periods.... Knight ends his history with a brief but heartfelt warning that the dialectical relationship between knowledge and truth and the public institutions of power remains crucial to both the academy and to the health of the body politic. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: British Myrddin-Merlin: Wisdom Myrddin-Merlin The Earliest Materials Natural Wisdom: Myrddin of Cumbria Prophetic Wisdom: Myrddin of Wales Wisdom at Court: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae Twelfth-Century Natural Wisdom: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita MerliniChapter 2: Medieval Merlin: Advice From Prophecy to Advice: Wace Christian Advice: Robert de Boron Grand Vizier: The Vulgate Merlin Darkening Advice: The Post-Vulgate Merlin Advising a Nation: from Layamon to MaloryChapter 3: English Merlin: Cleverness Prophecy and Advice in Decline Renaissance Cleverness Cleverness High and Low: The Seventeenth Century Cleverness High and Low: The Eighteenth Century The Dangers of Cleverness: The Romantics The Dangers of Cleverness: The VictoriansChapter 4: International Merlin: Education Continental Merlin: From Cleverness Back to Wisdom Toward Education: America Toward Education: Britain Education and the Novel: White, Lewis, and Cooper Education and the Novel: Historicism, Juveniles, and Fantasy Merlin on Screen International MerlinNotes Primary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Heroic Poets Poetic Heroes
Book SynopsisAn astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds's account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.Trade ReviewThe richness of Reynolds’s text and his scholarly accomplishment serve as poignant reminders of how little we know about Arab folk performances and how difficult it is to teach these great traditions to our students. -- Virginia Danielson * Middle East Studies Association Bulletin *Reynolds’s book both complements the works of his predecessors and surpasses them in the area on which he focuses. With it, we have a full and methodologically sophisticated treatment of the social poetics of Sirat Bani Hilal performance that is a model of how such research should be conducted. -- Peter Heath * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
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Cornell University Press Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
Book SynopsisIn Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous genres and the reception of folklore performance. The regional repertoire under examination presents a strikingly female-centered world. Female performers and characters are active, articulate, and frequently challenge or defy expectations of gender. Men also confound traditional gender roles. Flueckiger includes the translations of two full performance texts of narratives sung by female and male storytellers respectively.Trade ReviewIn this superbly crafted, absorbing book, Flueckiger explores the relationships among folklore genres in the Chattisgarh region of north India, achieving a pioneering model of the study of a ‘folklore system’ in its entirety. This is ethnographic scholarship at its best. The multigenre approach is a major contribution, and this rich book should be read by all students of folklore, literature, performance, and South Asia. * Choice *Based on fifteen months of original research at the boundary between the states of Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, as well as on many return visits over the course of fifteen years, this book is one of the most wide-ranging, meticulous, and insightful monographs on Indian folklore ever published. -- Gloria Goodwin Raheja * American Ethnologist *
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Cornell University Press The ManyMinded Man
Book SynopsisIn The Many-Minded Man, Joel Christensen explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiencesboth ancient and moderna therapeutic model for coping with the exigencies of chance and fate.By reading the Odyssey as an exploration of the constitutive elements of human identity, the function of narrative in defining the self, and the interaction between the individual and their social context, The Many-Minded Man addresses enduring questions about the poem, such as the importance of Telemachus''s role, why Odysseus must tell his own tale, and the epic''s sudden and unexpected closure. Through these dynamics, Christensen reasons, the Odyssey not only instructs readers about how narrative shapes a sense of agency but also offers solutions for avoiding dangerous stories and destructive patterns Trade ReviewWhile the arguments are usually complex and intricate, Christensen has successfully achieved what he set out to do, thanks in part to his clear style and presentation. Attentive and contemplative readers will gain insights not only into the Odyssey but also into their own experiences. * Choice *Joel Christensen shows that he has thoroughly digested not only the vast field of Classics – specifically Homeric scholarship – but also the equally immense realm of human psychology, although he modestly denies the latter. [H]e offers a deeply personal study, one that emphasizes process over product in a way that seems quite appropriate to both the Odyssey and modern psychology. * The Classical Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Homeric Psychology 2. Treating Telemachus, Education and Learned Helplessness 3. Escaping Ogygia, An Isolated Man 4. Odysseus's Apologoi and Narrative Therapy 5. Odysseus's Lies 6. Marginalized Agencies and Narrative Selves 7. Penelope's Subordinated Agency 8. The Politics of Ithaca 9. The Therapy of Oblivion, Unforgettable Pain and the Odyssey's End
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Cornell University Press Old Norse Folklore
Book SynopsisThe medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of this fascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and performance theory to memory studies, and myths relating to pre-Christian Nordic religion to innovations within late medieval pilgrimage song culture.Old Norse Folklore provides critical new perspectives on the Old Norse world, some of which appear in this volume for the first time in English. Stephen A. Mitchell presents emerging methodologies by analyzing Old Norse materials to offer a better understandings ofunderstanding of Old Norse materials. He examines, interprets, and re-interprets the medieval data bequeathed to us by posteritymyths, legends, riddles, charms, court culture, conversion narratives, la
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Cornell University Press Fables in Jewish Culture The Jon A. Lindseth
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