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Taylor & Francis Apollo Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World
Book SynopsisFrom his first attestations in Homer, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world.Table of ContentsWhy Apollo?: Why Write a Book on a God? Key Themes 1. Apollo in Homer 2. Apollo the Musician 3. Oracular Apollo 4. Apollo, God of Healing 5. Apollo, the Young, and the City 6. Origins Apollo afterwards Chapter 7. Apollo’s Flourishing Aftermath
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism Routledge Library Editions Anthropology Ethnography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Witch Figure Folklore essays by a group of scholars in England honouring the 75th birthday of Katharine M Briggs Routledge Library Editions Anthropology Ethnography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ballads and Stories from Tunhuang China History Philosophy Economics
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Taylor & Francis Myth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd National Myths Constructed Pasts Contested Presents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History British Folklore
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History of British Folklore
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Taylor & Francis Ltd History of British Folklore
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ballads and Stories from Tunhuang An Anthology China History Philosophy Economics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd National Myths Constructed Pasts Contested Presents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gawain A Casebook Arthurian Characters and Themes
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Taylor & Francis Effective Leadership Strategies for Maximizing Executive Productivity and Health
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Taylor & Francis Merlin A Casebook Arthurian Characters and Themes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd African Folklore An Encyclopedia
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Taylor & Francis The Witch Figure
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jung and the Jungians on Myth
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gawain A Casebook Arthurian Characters and Themes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why Fairy Tales Stick
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Witchcraft Myths in American Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Witchcraft Myths in American Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitr 1
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitr 2
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Korean Folklore Reader Uralic Altaic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Finnish Folklore Reader Uralic Altaic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Turkish Folklore Reader Uralic Altaic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Studies in Finnic Folklore Uralic Altaic
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dawn to Dusk Folktales from Benin
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Russian Tales of Clever Fools Complete Russian Folktale 07 Complete Russian Folktale Hardcover
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V. 18
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Oxford University Press Alpha The Myths of Creation Classics in Religious StudiesScholars Press and the Ameri AAR Classics in Religious Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Folklore People and Places
Book SynopsisFolklore, People and Place is a contribution towards better understanding the complex interconnectivity of folklore, people and place, across a range of different cultural and geographical contexts. The book showcases a range of international case studies from different cultural and ecological contexts showing how folklore can and does mediate human relationships with people and place.Folklore has traditionally been connected to place, telling tales of the land and the real and imaginary beings that inhabit storied places. These storytelling traditions and practices have endured in a contemporary world, yet the role and value of folklore to people and places has changed. The book explores a broad range of international perspectives and considers how the relationship between folklore, people, and place has evolved for tourists and indigenous communities. It will showcase a range of international case studies from different cultural and ecological contexts showing how Table of ContentsIntroduction: Mapping the TerritoryPART I: Re-making and Re-shaping the Past Rebuilding The Sacred Union with Basque Fountains and Springs by María Martínez Pisón Bedecked in Ribbons and Bows: Dressed Trees as Markers of Heritage, Hope, and Faith in Southern England by Ethan Doyle White ‘Unite and Unite, and Let Us All Unite’: The Social Role of the Calendar Custom in English Communities by Sophie Parkes-Nield ‘The spik o the place’: dialect and its place in the folkloric cultures and traditions of North-East Scotland by Peter H. Reid Folklore, Story and Place: An Irish Tradition with Vast Touristic Value by Shane Broderick PART II: Folklore and Indigenous Landscapes Sacred Anishinaabeg Folklore: Okikendawt Mnisiing, the Island of the Sacred Kettles by Renée E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bédard Break in the Reef of Time: An Indigenous Science approach to the Olowalu petroglyphs on Maui by Apela Colorado and Ryan Hurd Creating La Cuna del Folklore Nacional: The Colonization of Indigenous Celebrations, Legends, and Landscapes in Nicaraguan State Heritage Tourism by Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez Tasting the Intangible: Examples of Communication from Sápmi by Kajsa G. Åberg and Doris A. Carson Wildness Makes This World by Matthew Cowan PART III: Reimagining folklore in a globalised world: tourism, placemaking and re-enchantment A City Made of Stories: Re-enchantment and Narrative Placemaking in Madrid by Leticia Cortina Aracil The Folklore of the Subterranean: The Spectres of the Underground in Dudley Tourist Sites by Sian MacFarlane Ghosts, Extraterrestrials and (Re-)Enchantment: Possibilities and Challenges in Post-Secular Tourism by Eva Kingsepp Mythical Park: Reflections on Folklore, its Natural Environment and Tourism by Katja Hrobat Virloget Virtually Haunted Places: Armchair Ghost Tours Through Weird Space by Alicia Edwards-Boon Concluding Remarks: Exploring Further
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Media and FairyTale
Book SynopsisFrom Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, media studies, and cultural studies, addressing, among others, issues of reception, audience cultures, ideology, remediation, and adaptation. Examples and case studies are drawn from a wide range of pertinent disciplines and settings, providing thorough, accessible treatment of central topics and specific media from around the globe.Trade Review"[...] the interdisciplinary mode of this text offers a fascinating and needed intervention in the field, relocating criticism of fairy tales from historically and nationally based analysis of when and where fairy tales operate and in what contexts, to how fairy tales travel across cultures and media and how this impacts the perceived function of the tales. To decouple fairy tales from their assumed spaces and relocate them within a media culture that is constantly transforming and recreating itself is a step long needed in the field of fairy-tale studies." - Michelle Anya Anjirbag, in Jeunesse, Vol 11 No 1 (2019)Table of ContentsBasic ConceptsOverview of Basic Concepts: Folklore, Fairy Tale, Culture, and MediaJill Terry RudyDefinition and History of Fairy TalesCarl LindahlConstructing Fairy-Tale Media Forms: Texts, Textures, ContextsVanessa Nunes and Pauline GreenhillAnalytical ApproachesFormalismJill Terry RudyPsychologyVeronica SchanoesMarxismAndrew TeversonPerformancePatricia Sawin and Milbre BurchFeminismAllison CravenPostmodernismCristina BacchilegaColonialism, Postcolonialism, and DecolonizationCristina Bacchilega and Sadhana NaithaniIssuesPolitical and Identity IssuesActivism (Folktales and Social Justice: When Marvelous Tales from the Oral Tradition Help Rethink and Stir the Present from the Margins)Vivian LabrieDisabilityAnn SchmiesingGenderAnne DugganIndigeneity (E Hoʻokikohoʻe iā Peʻapeʻamakawalu [Digitizing the Eight-Eyed Bat]: Indigenous Wonder Tales, Culture, and Media)ku’ualoha ho’omanawanuiOrientalism (Excavation and Representation: Two Orientalist Modes in Fairy Tales)Jenny Heijun WillsThematic IssuesAdaptation and the Fairy-Tale WebCristina BacchilegaAdvertisingOlivia WeigeldtConvergence Culture (Media Convergence, Convergence Culture, and Communicative Capitalism)Ida YoshinagaCrime/JusticeSue ShortDisney CorporationLynda Haas and Shaina TrapedoHybridityFrancisco Vaz da SilvaIntellectual PropertyJohn LaudunPornography Catherine TosenbergerStoryworlds/NarratologyKatharine YoungIntersectional IssuesAnimal StudiesPauline Greenhill and Leah Claire AllenChildren’s and Young Adult (YA) LiteratureAnna KérchyFandom/Fan CulturesAnne KustritzFat Studies ("Where Everything Round is Good:" Exploring and Reimagining Fatness in Fairy-Tale Media)Lauren BoscLanguageB. Grantham AldredOral TraditionMartin LovelacePedagogyClaudia SchwabeSexualities/Queer and Trans StudiesPauline GreenhillTranslation (Written Forms)Karen SeagoCommunicative MediaPrintWilliam GrayPictorial ("Such Strange Transformations:" Burne-Jones’s Cinderella and Domestic Technologies)Molly Clark HillardMaterial Culture (Fairy Tale Things: Studying Fairy Tales from a Material Culture Perspective)Meredith A. BakTheaterJennifer SchackerPhotographicMayako MuraiCinematicPauline GreenhillBroadcast (Radio and Television)Jill Terry RudyDigital ("Blood and Glitter:" Fairy Tales as Text, Texture, and Context in Digital Media)Lynne S. McNeillExpressive Genres and VenuesAnime and Manga ("You Love Your Father, Don’t You?": The Influence of Tale Type 510B on Japanese Manga/Anime)Bill EllisAnthologies and Tale CollectionsJessie RiddleAutobiographyMartine Hennard Dutheil de la RochèreBlogs and Websites (Narrativizing the Daily "Once Upon a Time:" Re-Envisioning the Fairy-Tale Present with Fairy-Tale Blogs)Lindsay BrownChapbooksMaria KaliambouChildren’s MuseumsNaomi Hamer Children’s Picture Books and IllustrationsBalaka BasuChildren’s TelevisionJodi McDavid and Ian BrodieCinema Science FictionJohn RiederClassical MusicPauline Greenhill and Danishka EsterhazyComics and Graphic Novels (Fairy-Tale Graphic Narrative)Emma WhatmanComic Cons (Fairy-Tale Culture and Comic Conventions: Perpetuating Storytelling Traditions)Emma NelsonContemporary ArtAmanda Slack-SmithCriticismVanessa JoosenFan FictionAnne KustritzFantasyMing-Hsun LinFood (Sugar-Coated Fairy Tales and the Contemporary Cultures of Consumption)Natalia AndrievskikhHorrorSue ShortMobile AppsCynthia NugentMusic Videos and Pop MusicRebecca Hutton and Emma WhatmanMusicalsJill Terry RudyNovelsChristy WilliamsOperaPauline GreenhillPoetry (Fairy-Tale Poems: The Winding Path to Illo Tempore)Michael JosephReality TelevisionVanessa NunesRomance (The Transmedial Romance of "Beauty and the Beast")Tomasz Z. Majkowski and Agata ZarzyckaStorytelling (Fairy Tales in Contemporary American and European Storytelling Performance)Joseph Sobol and Csenge Virág ZalkaTraditional SongPauline Greenhill and Jill Terry RudyTelevision Drama (Fairy Tales and American TV Drama)Mikel KovenVideo GamesEmma Whatman and Victoria TedeschiYouTube and Internet VideoBrittany Warman
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Cambridge University Press Power Marginality and African Oral Literature
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Cambridge University Press Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance 4 Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press SheWolf
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Cambridge University Press Power Marginality and African Oral Literature
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Cambridge University Press Voices of the People in NineteenthCentury France 18 Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series Number 18
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Cambridge University Press The Outlaw Legend
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Cambridge University Press The Outlaw Legend A Cultural Tradition in Britain America and Australia
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology
Book SynopsisA group of the world's most authoritative scholars of classical myth present a thorough treatment of all aspects of Greek mythology. Sixteen original articles guide the reader through the fascinating field of ancient Greek mythic tradition from its origins in ancient Greek literature to its modern interpretations in writing and film.Trade Review'Woodward brings together a group of scholars of classical myth to provide an account of all aspects of Greek mythology, the ancient mythic tradition and it's influence around the world.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'… everyone interested in Greek myth will estimate this companion as a useful and inspiring departing point for getting deeper into the subject.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'… wonderful though they are simply as narratives, the myths had - and still have - their own origins and contexts, and it is these that are explored in this fascinating companion.' Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Muthoi in continuity and variation Roger D. Woodard; Part I. Sources and Interpretations: 1. Lyric and Greek myth Gregory Nagy; 2. Homer and Greek myth Gregory Nagy; 3. Hesiod and Greek myth Roger D. Woodard; 4. Tragedy and Greek myth Richard Buxton; 5. Aristophanes and Greek myth Angus Bowie; 6. Plato and Greek myth Diskin Clay; 7. Hellenistic mythographers Carolyn Higbie; Part II. Response, Integration, Representation: 8. Greek myth and Greek religion Claude Calame; 9. Myth in Greek art and architecture Jenifer Neils; 10. The landscapes of Greek myth Ada Cohen; 11. Politics and Greek myth Jonathan M. Hall; 12. Ovid and Greek myth A. J. Boyle; Part III. Reception: 13. Women and Greek myth Vanda Zajko; 14. Greek myth in medieval and renaissance literature H. David Brumble; 15. Greek myth in English and American literature Sarah Anne Brown; 16. Greek myth on the screen Martin M. Winkler.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend
Book SynopsisFor more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the most important works of European literature. This Companion outlines the evolution of the legend from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot.Trade Review'The welcome new addition to the authoritative Cambridge Companion series traces Arthurian narrative from history through pseudo-history to romance, and on into the post-medieval centuries. … Ad Putter's chapter on the twelfth century is a masterpiece of compression …' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsChronology; Introduction Ad Putter and Elizabeth Archibald; Part I. Evolution: 1. The early Arthur: history and myth Ronald Hutton; 2. The twelfth-century Arthur Ad Putter; 3. The thirteenth-century Arthur Jane H. M. Taylor; 4. The fourteenth-century Arthur John Burrow; 5. The fifteenth-century Arthur Barry Windeatt; 6. The Arthur of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries Rob Gossedge and Stephen Knight; 7. The Arthur of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Norris Lacy; Part II. Themes: 8. Questioning Arthurian ideals Elizabeth Archibald; 9. Arthurian ethics Jane Gilbert; 10. Imperial Arthur: home and away Andrew Lynch; 11. Love and adultery: Arthur's affairs Peggy McCracken; 12. Religion and magic Corinne Saunders; 13. Arthurian geography Robert Allen Rouse and Cory James Rushton; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Camb Comp Greek Mythology
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian Folklore 16 Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture Series Number 16
Book SynopsisIvan the Terrible has long been a controversial figure. Some historians regard him as a crazed and evil tyrant; while others (especially Soviet scholars of the Stalin period) have viewed him as a progressive and far-sighted statesman. The folklore about Ivan has played an important part in these debates. Was Ivan's depiction in folklore favourable or hostile? And how far can it be regarded as evidence of contemporary popular attitudes towards the tsar? In this unusual and far-ranging study, Maureen Perrie discusses the nature of Ivan's image in Russian folklore; its historical basis; its development; and the controversies which have surrounded it in pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russian scholarship. She argues that Ivan was in general portrayed in folklore in a positive light, but that this image does not necessarily reflect sixteenth-century views.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: the myth of the tsar; Part I. Folkloristics: 1. The image of the tsar: a review of the literature; 2. History and folklore: some methodological; Part II. Folklore: 3. The image of Ivan the Terrible in folklore; 4. The historical content of the folklore; 5. The development of Ivan's popular image; Conclusion; Texts; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Stories of Origins in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean Literature
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