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Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497958318
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.
Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z19572080X
Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479443192
Collected from the oral tradition in South-West Munster, England, here are tales of the fairy-folk and ghosts passed down through the generations through oral story-telling.
Author : Joseph Jacobs,Alfred Trübner Nutt,Arthur Robinson Wright,William Crooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ17ZA
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:39000005797753
Author : Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486411397
Thirty beguiling stories of sprites and specters told to a Smithsonian ethnographer in 19th-century Ireland. "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," many more.
Author : Carole G. Silver
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190286835
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.
Author : Boston Athenaeum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044093001642
Author : Howard J Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317451648
Here is a treasury of favorite and little known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information of their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of folklore, its purpose in world cultures and in contemporary society and popular culture. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. Each section begins by comparing the tales cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the folkloric narratives. Tales from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion.
Author : D. L. Ashliman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415204763
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jan Beveridge
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773596160
Fairy tales are alive with the supernatural - elves, dwarfs, fairies, giants, and trolls, as well as witches with magic wands and sorcerers who cast spells and enchantments. Children into Swans examines these motifs in a range of ancient stories. Moving from the rich period of nineteenth-century fairy tales back as far as the earliest folk literature of northern Europe, Jan Beveridge shows how long these supernatural features have been a part of storytelling, with ancient tales, many from Celtic and Norse mythology, that offer glimpses into a remote era and a pre-Christian sensibility. The earliest stories often show significant differences from what we might expect. Elves mingle with Norse gods, dwarfs belong to a proud clan of magician-smiths, and fairies are shape-shifters emerging from the hills and the sea mist. In story traditions with roots in a pre-Christian imagination, an invisible other world exists alongside our own. From the lost cultures of a thousand years ago, Children into Swans opens the door on some of the most extraordinary worlds ever portrayed in literature - worlds that are both starkly beautiful and full of horrors.
Author : Herbert Halpert,J.D.A. Widdowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317551492
This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription system conveys to the reader the accents and rhythms of each performance, and the endnote to each tale features an analysis of the narrator’s language. In addition, Newfoundland has preserved many aspects of English and Irish folk tradition, some of which are no longer active in the countries of their origin. Working from the premise that traditions virtually unknown in England might still survive in active form in Newfoundland, the researchers set out to discover if this was in fact the case.
Author : David Pierce
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 1380 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1859182089
With five Nobel Prize-winners, seven Pulitzer Prize-winners and two Booker Prize-winning novelists, modern Irish writing has contributed something special and permanent to our understanding of the twentieth century. Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century provides a useful, comprehensive and pleasurable introduction to modern Irish literature in a single volume. Organized chronologically by decade, this anthology provides the reader with a unique sense of the development and richness of Irish writing and of the society it reflected. It embraces all forms of writing, not only the major forms of drama, fiction and verse, but such material as travel writing, personal memoirs, journalism, interviews and radio plays, to offer the reader a complete and wonderfully varied sense of Ireland's contribution our literary heritage. David Pierce has selected major literary figures as well as neglected ones, and includes many writers from the Irish diaspora. The range of material is enormous, and ensures that work that is inaccessible or out of print is now easily available. The book is a delightful compilation, including many well known pieces and captivating "discoveries," which anyone interested in literature will long enjoy browsing and dipping into.
Author : Patricia Monaghan
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781438110370
Presents an illustrated A to Z reference containing over 1,000 entries providing information on Celtic myths, fables and legends from Ireland, Scotland, Celtic Britain, Wales, Brittany, central France, and Galicia.