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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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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales
Book SynopsisA lively account of the historical origins, evolution, dissemination and influence of some of the simplest and most universal stories ever created. Essays by leading scholars from a range of academic disciplines explore the diverse interpretations these tales have attracted over the centuries and the reasons for their ongoing power.Table of ContentsIntroduction Maria Tatar; 1. Fairy tales, copyright, and the public domain Valdimar Hafstein; 2. Female tricksters as double agents Maria Tatar; 3. While beauty sleeps Shuli Barzilai; 4. Fairy-tale adaptations and economies of desire Cristina Bacchilega; 5. Fairy-tale symbolism Francisco Vaz da Silva; 6. Trickster heroes in 'The Boy Who Steals the Ogre's Treasure' Nancy Canepa; 7. Exploring empathy and ethics in 'Tales about Three Brothers' Maria Nikolajeva; 8. The creation of Cinderella from Basile to the Brothers Grimm Armando Maggi; 9. The soul music of 'The Juniper Tree' Stephen Benson; 10. Sex, crime, magic, and mystery in the One Thousand and One Nights Ulrich Marzolph; 11. Media-hyping of fairy tales Jack Zipes; 12. Transformations of E. T. A. Hoffmann's Tales from Hawthorne to Oz Holly Blackford.
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Cambridge University Press The Ancient History of the Maori His Mythology and Traditions Volume 3
Book SynopsisThis compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (182691) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 3 (1887) includes narratives about the rainbow god Uenuku, and the South Island Maori.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Ue-nuku and Whena; 2. Ue-nuku; 3. Pou-heni and Hine-kau-i-rangi; 4. Tama-tea and Rongo-kako; 5. Rongo-i-tua and Kahui-tupua; 6. Tara-ki-uta and Tara-ki-tai; 7. Nga-ti-ira; 8. Rau-rika; 9. Kui, Tutu-mai-ao, and Turehu; 10. Pa o Nga-toko-ono (The Pa of the Six); 11. The acts of Te-wera; 12. Last migration from Ha-taitai; 13. Tama-i-hara-nui; 14. Nga-ti-mamoe and South Island history.
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Cambridge University Press The Lore of the Wharewnanga Volume 2
Book SynopsisThe Maori texts in this 191315 publication were written down over fifty years earlier by W. H. Whatahoro, acting as scribe for senior Maori elders. Whatahoro himself helped prepare the accompanying English translation. Volume 2 covers traditions concerning the origins and early history of the Maori people and their migrations.Table of Contents1. The Fatherland Irihia. Migration from there to Tawhiti-roa. The Uruao canoe. Was Tama-rereti identical with Hawaii-loa? Ancient Indian vessels; 2. The migration to Tawhiti-nui. Te Irapanga-nui sails across the North Pacific to Oahu. Migration to Tahiti; 3. The discovery of New Zealand by Kupe as related by Te Matorohanga; 4. The Tangata-whenua of New Zealand; 5. The migration of Toi-te-huatahi to New Zealand; 6. The coming of Manaia to New Zealand; 7. Kāhu goes to the Chatham Islands. Te Uru-o-Manono. The canoes of the migration from Hawaiki. Kāhu-koka returns to Hawaiki; 8. Doings in Tahiti shortly before the fleet left for New Zealand, circa, 1350; 9. The coming of 'Takitimu' canoe to New Zealand; 10. The coming of 'Takitimu' canoe to New Zealand continued; 11. The reason why details of the other canoes are not here given. Of Toi-te-hautahi. 'Tainui' and 'Te Arawa' canoes. The Migration of Tara-pounamu. The Ngati-Awa tribe; 12. Turanga-i-mua and Tane-roa. Ngati-Awa migrate to the West Coast. Ngati-Mamoe migrate to the South Island; 13. The expedition of Turanga-i-mua to the North; 14. The heavenly Whare-wānanga. The Whare-kura at O-akura. Tama-ahua and Raumati. The burning of 'Te Arawa' canoe. Tara, of Ngai-Tara and Timuaki; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Demonology and DevilLore Volume 1 Cambridge
Book SynopsisMoncure Daniel Conway (1832â1907), the son of a Virginian plantation-owner, became a Unitarian minister but his anti-slavery views made him controversial. He later became a freethinker, and following the outbreak of the Civil War, which deeply divided his own family, he left the United States for England in 1863. He gained a reputation for being the 'least orthodox preacher in London', and was acquainted with many figures in the literary and scientific world, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. In this two-volume work, first published in 1879, Conway draws from examples across the world to discuss the origins and decline of beliefs in demons. In Volume 1, he classifies types of demon and argues that the various types are personifications of the main obstacles to 'primitive man': he finds in mythology across the world examples of animal demons and demons of hunger, fire and disease.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. Dualism; 2. The genesis of demons; 3. Degradation; 4. The abgott; 5. Classiciation; Part II: 1. Hunger; 2. Heat; 3. Cold; 4. Elements; 5. Animals; 6. Enemies; 7. Barrenness; 8. Obstacles; 9. Illusion; 10. Darkness; 11. Diseases; 12. Death; Part III: 1. Decline of demons; 2. Generalisation of demons; 3. The serpent; 4. The worm; 5. Apophis; 6. The serpent in India; 7. The basilisk; 8. The dragon's eye; 9. The combat; 10. The dragon-slayer; 11. The dragon's breath; 12. Fate.
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Cambridge University Press Teutonic Mythology Volume 1 Cambridge Library Collection Anthropology
Book SynopsisThe linguist and philologist Jacob Grimm (1785â1863) is best remembered as co-editor, with his brother Wilhelm, of Grimm's Fairy Tales, though their great Deutsches WÃrterbuch remains an influential reference work. Grimm's exhaustive study in comparative mythology and religion, Deutsche Mythologie, was first published in German in 1835: this English translation, published between 1880 and 1888, is of the posthumous fourth German edition of 1875. Drawing on his knowledge of language and world mythology, Grimm outlines a wide variety of themes in Germanic folklore (such as time, creation, destiny and the soul), comparing them to classical and oriental tales as well as charting the influence of Christianity on legends and on Pagan religion. Volume 1 focuses on religion, worship and the portrayal of gods and their powers. Erudite and full of insight, this is an invaluable resource for scholars of mythology and religion as well as of German cultural history.Table of ContentsTranslator's preface; 1. Introduction; 2. God; 3. Worship; 4. Temples; 5. Priests; 6. Gods; 7. Wuotan, Wodan (Odinn); 8. Donar, Thunar (Thorr); 9. Zio, Tiw (Tyr); 10. Fro (Freyr); 11. Paltar (Balder); 12. Other gods; 13. Goddesses; 14. Condition of gods; 15. Heroes; 16. Wise women.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dont Know Much Aboutr Mythology
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc King Arthur
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mules and Men P.S.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Norse Mythology Unabridged CD
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HarperCollins The Widely Unknown Myth of Apple Dorothy
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Night Parade
Book SynopsisA Most Anticipated Book by Poets & Writers • The Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Los Angeles Times • The Millions • Library Journal • Book Riot • Debutiful • and many more! In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated speculative memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo—the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons—to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. “Jami Nakamura Lin has reinvented the genre of memoir. . . . Serpentine, polyphonic, and stunningly textured, The Night Parade positively pulses with life. — Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, award-winning author of The Fact of a Body Are these the only two stories? The one, where you defeat your monster, and the other, where you succumb to it?Jami Nakamura Lin spent much of her life feeling monstrous for reasons outside of her control. As a young woman with undiagnosed bipolar disorder, much of her adolescence was marked by periods of extreme rage and an array of psychiatric treatments, and her relationships suffered as a result, especially as her father’s cancer grasped hold of their family.As she grew older and learned to better manage her episodes, Lin became frustrated with the familiar pattern she found in mental illness and grief narratives, and their focus on recovery. She sought comfort in the stories she’d loved as a child—tales of ghostly creatures known to terrify in the night. Through the lens of the yokai and other figures from Japanese, Taiwanese, and Okinawan legend, she set out to interrogate the very notion of recovery and the myriad ways fear of difference shapes who we are as a people.Featuring stunning illustrations by her sister, Cori Nakamura Lin, and divided into the four acts of a traditional Japanese narrative structure, The Night Parade is a genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms. Braiding her experience of mental illness, the death of her father, the grieving process, and other haunted topics with storytelling tradition, Jami Nakamura Lin shines a light into dark corners, driven by a question: How do we learn to live with the things that haunt us?
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HarperCollins Cece Rios and the Queen of Brujas
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura
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Penguin Putnam Inc American Indian Trickster Tales
Book SynopsisOf all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest, to Iktomi, the amorphous spider man of the Lakota tribe. This dazzling collection of American Indian trickster tales, compiled by an eminent anthropologist and a master storyteller, serves as the perfect companion to their previous masterwork, American Indian Myths and Legends.American Indian Trickster Tales includes more than one hundred stories from sixty tribes--many recorded from living storytellers—which are illustrated with lively and evocative drawings. These entertaining tales can be read aloud and enjoyed by readers of any age, and will entrance folklorists, anthropologists, lovers of Native American literature, and fans of both Joseph Campbell and the Brothers G
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Penguin Books Ltd Sunjata
Book SynopsisSunjata Keita was the founder of one of the greatest empires of Western Africa. These two epic accounts of his life portray a greedy, slow-witted child - said to have crawled until the age of seven - who grew up as prophecy foretold to become a mighty warrior, renowned for his bravery and superhuman strength. They describe how, with the help of his sister, who seduced their arch-enemy Sumanguru into revealing his secret powers, Sunjata defeated the Susu overlords and created the Mali Empire which would last for two centuries. Based on events from the early thirteenth century, these tales of heroism and magic are still celebrated across West Africa as part of a living epic oral tradition.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the
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J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. I Know What I Saw ModernDay Encounters with
Book SynopsisWhich came first--the monster or the myth? Journalist Linda Godfrey investigates present-day encounters with mysterious creatures of old.The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and more contemporary urban legend have long captured the popular imagination. While most people in America today relegate monsters to just that--our imaginations--we continue to be fascinated by the unknown. Linda Godfrey is one of the country's leading authorities on modern-day monsters and has interviewed countless eyewitnesses to strange phenomena. Monsters evolve, taking on both new and familiar forms over time and across cultures. In this well-researched book, Godfrey explores uncanny encounters with werewolves, goatmen, Bigfoot, and more.In more than twenty-five years spent chasing monsters, Godfrey has found that it often remains unclear whether the sightings are simply mistaken animals, hoaxes, or coincidence. When all the speculation is said and done, one question remains fo
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Penguin Random House India And That Is Why . . . Manipuri Myths Retold
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