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Author : Harold W. Felton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Bowleg Bill (Legendary character)
ISBN : UOM:39015024083977
Tall tales about a seagoing cowpuncher who roped whales instead of cows. Grades 4-8.
Author : Christopher R. Fee,Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1265 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610695688
A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.
Author : Wyatt Blassingame
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bowleg Bill
ISBN : 0811640442
Relates how Bowleg Bill, the cowboy, became a sailor.
Author : Terry Ann Mood-Leopold
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576076217
An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1938-02
Category : Fashion
ISBN : UGA:32108058501514
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780300183351
"You can't unring a bell." "It takes a village to raise a child." "Life is just a bowl of cherries." We sometimes think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusively to English language proverbs that originated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The most complete and accurate such collection ever compiled, The Yale Book of Modern Proverbs presents more than 1,400 individual proverbs gathered and researched with the help of electronic full-text databases not previously used for such a project. Entries are organized alphabetically by key words, with information about the earliest datable appearance, origin, history, and meaning of each proverb. Mundane or sublime, serious or jocular, these memorable sayings represent virtually every aspect of the modern experience. Readers will find the book almost impossible to put down once opened; every page offers further proof of the immense vitality of proverbs and their colorful contributions to the oral traditions of today.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:B3421246
Author : Isabel S. Monro,Dorothy E. Cook
Publisher : H. W. Wilson
Page : 1576 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1953-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:49015003032720
Author : Louis Lozowick,William Gropper
Publisher : Associated University Presses
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Art
ISBN : 0845347306
Cowper is too often read as an escapist poet, whose requirement constitutes an attitude of political retreat and disengagement. This book covers the highly politicised context of retirement as a mode of political opposition in the 18th century and shows the extent to which one poet drew from, and contrinuted to, this radical tradition.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1562 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Short stories
ISBN : PURD:32754000548614
Quinquennial supplements,1950/1954-1979/1983, compiled by Estelle A. Fidell, and others, published 1956-1984.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1555 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349036509
Author : Walter Blair
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226227917
"Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry have all become heroes of American folklore. Some of them, like Crokett, were real, but all have become the subject of tall tales. This is a folksy history of the United States, told as if the characters were all real. This panoramic (if completely untrue) history begins with Columbus. . . . En route to its end in the 1940s (where traditional American heroes are enlisted to fight in World War II), it covers the great and small events of our national history, including the overlooked, but important ones, such as the invention of the prairie dog."—Washington Post Book World
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498751
Author : Frank Hoffmann,Marshall Fishwick,B Lee Cooper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317957447
A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular Culture highlights important historical events such as the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions while examining world-changing social movements. You will go on a journey through time, exploring the cultures of the world, venturing from cavespace to tomb space, to temple space, then medieval space, to modern space and post-modern epochs, and finally to cyberspace. While moving through cultural history, you will explore such stories and discoveries as: the 1991 discovery of Oetzi the Ice Man, who is 5,300 years old the legends of the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and Americans who or what turned on the light to the Dark Ages the impact of René Descartes: “I think, therefore I am,” and the inspiration of the Enlightenment modernism and the determination to be up to date the incredible 20th century that McDonaldized the world postmodernism and its technology cyburbia and globalism Popular Culture contains a wide collection of stories covering cultural phenomena such as Tutmania, the Crusades, the Ninja Turtles, Hamburger University, elitism, Shakespeare, America's Frontier Thesis, The Global Village, and the coming millennium. You will be intrigued by the plethora of fascinating links that Professor Fishwick makes in this comprehensive guide to ever-changing popular culture.
Author : Judie L. H. Strouf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780735201217
Wonderful for browsing, and invaluable for finding specific information, Literature Lovers Book of Lists is a compendium of useful and sometimes whimsical information for anyone who loves books and loves to read, at any age or reading level. It is organized into nine sections and provides nearly 200 lists relating to genres, authors, characters and settings, awards, literary terms with their definitions and much more. There are even lists of books of prose and poetry available on audiocassettes. If it has to do with literature, this book has the answers. What book has had the longest run on The New York Times best-seller list? Who is the only four-time winner of the Pulitizer Prize for drama? What is the complete list of Shakespeare's plays and poems? Who are some of the most notable African American authors? What are the three main variations of the sonnet? What famous writers belonged to The Bloomsbury Group? Literature Lovers Book of Lists is both exciting and informative at the same time.