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Author : D. L. Ashliman
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:39000005590406
"Students of folklore and storytellers will find this guide useful." Choice
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520051610
This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.
Author : D. L. Ashliman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313058592
Just about everyone is familiar with folk and fairy tales. Children learn about them from parents, teachers, and other adults, while researchers study these tales at colleges and universities. At the same time, folk and fairy tales are inseparable from everyday life and popular culture. Movies, music, art, and literature offer imaginative retellings and interpretations of fairy and folk tales. But despite the pervasiveness of this folklore type, most people have only a vague understanding of these tales. This reference is a convenient introduction to folk and fairy tales for students and general readers. Written by a leading authority, this handbook offers a broad examination of folk and fairy tales as a folklore type. It looks at tales from around the world and from diverse cultures. The volume defines and classifies folk and fairy tales and analyzes a number of examples. It studies the varied manifestations of fairy and folk tales in literature and culture and reviews critical and scholarly approaches to this folklore genre. The volume also includes a glossary and extensive list of works for further reading.
Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786787255
This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art – when the audience believed in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit Tot” and other quintessentially English favourites, alongside interesting borrowings, such as an English version of the Grimms’ “Little Snow White” – as well as bedtime frighteners, including “Captain Murderer”, as told to Charles Dickens by his childhood nurse. Neil Philip has provided a full introduction and source notes on each story that illustrate each tale’s journey from mouth to page, and what has happened to them on the way. These tales rank among the finest English short stories of all time in their richness of metaphor and plot and their great verbal dash and daring.
Author : Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher : Curiosities
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1934648345
Valente offers a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explores myth and wonder--ancient and modern.
Author : Eric K. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 052163749X
Using Folktales provides over 40 ready-to-use activities and dozens of stories which are suitable for all ages from beginner to advanced level. The paperback edition shows teachers how to take advantage of the unique literary characteristics of folk tales to facilitate language learning. It provides over forty ready-to-use activities and dozens of stories. Activities are suitable for all ages and range from beginning to advanced.
Author : Janice M. Del Negro
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780838911358
A good folktale triggers the imagination, connecting children to a wider world as well as increasing their vocabulary and comprehension skills. In this delightful and easy-to-use book, teacher and storyteller Del Negro gives librarians, teachers, and parents the keys to storytelling success. Including more than a dozen original adaptations of folktales from around the world, tailored specifically for library and classroom use, she Reviews storytelling basics such as selecting a tale and learning the story Offers tips for dealing with stage fright and reluctant listeners Presents a bibliography of recommended online and print resources, steering readers to more wonderful tales to tell For young listeners the folktale is a perfect gateway to the exciting worlds of culture and literature, and Del Negro’s book invites their engagement with proven techniques and original story scripts that can be used by experienced as well as beginning tellers.
Author : Max Lüthi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1986-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253203937
"Niles' excellent translation should bring Lüthi's sensitive and articulate study the recognition it deserves among English readers." —Library Journal Lüthi demonstrates how the folktale, by its very distance from reality, can play upon the most important themes of human existence.
Author : Gerry Abbott,Han Khin Thant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004392052
This handbook is the first in-depth overview of the fascinating world of Burmese folk-tales. Part one provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary survey of folk-tale studies, together with a broad functional classification of Burma’s tales. Part two presents, mostly for the first time in a European language, the categorized actual tales themselves. With commentaries on plots and cross-cultural motifs - past and present. With index, substantial bibliography, and suggestions for further research.
Author : Fanny Hagin Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011251546
Author : Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Legends
ISBN : OCLC:51675253
Author : Mary Hamilton
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813136011
The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies Kentucky storyteller Mary Hamilton narrates a range of stories with the voice and creativity only a master storyteller can evoke. Hamilton has perfected the art of entrancing an audience no matter the subject of her tales. Kentucky Folktales includes stories about Daniel Boone's ability to single-handedly kill a bear, a daughter who saves her father's land by outsmarting the king, and a girl who uses gingerbread to exact revenge on her evil stepmother, among many others. Hamilton ends each story with personal notes on important details of her storytelling craft, such as where she first heard the story, how it evolved through frequent re-tellings and reactions from audiences, and where the stories take place. Featuring tales and legends from all over the Bluegrass State, Kentucky Folktales captures the expression of Kentucky's storytelling tradition.
Author : Martin Dines,Timotheus Vermeulen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472514882
Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.
Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395849802
This handsome volume brings together eighteen American stories from eleven states, all of which are based on traditional tales of the European cultures that had the earliest influence on this country-the British Isles, France, Spain, and Germany. Some stories are variants of familiar favorites like "Snow White" ("A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad"), while others, like "The Little Bull with the Golden Horns," are less well known; some are funny, some poignant. All share a characteristic freshness, energy, and informality that mark them as purely American. Vividly colored illustrations in the style of American folk art add humor and charm to this collection of lively, colloquial tales-tales that just beg to be read aloud. An authoritative introduction and notes place each in its folkloric context.
Author : Steven Swann Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136753411
One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of folklorist and critics to provide the student with a stunning, lucid overview of the genre and a solid understanding of its structure.