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Author: Donna Rosenberg
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780844257808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers folklore, myths and legends in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, and the Far East.
Author: McGraw-Hill, Glencoe
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780844257631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFolklore, Myths, and Legends: A World Perspective contains world masterpieces including Prometheus, Faust, the Shahnemeh and the Mahabharata in a retold format that gives your students all the flavor of the original work in an easy-to-understand presentation. Contained within this text are historical and cultural background information for each selection and detailed source notes.
Author: Donna Rosenberg
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Adams Leeming
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0195117840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a variety of myths, tales, and legends. Includes Native American tales about creation, goddesses, trickster gods, the Indian and the white man, as well as Hispanic American, Asian American, Anglo American, and African American stories. Features patriotic heroes, American loners, frontiersman, and tall tales, Western outlaws, lawmen, and cowboys, slave rebels, and Blues legends, among other topics.
Author: Juliette Wood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1441166769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on historical sources, myth and folklore, Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore explores the roles of fantastical beasts - particularly the unicorn, the mermaid, and the dragon - in a series of thematic chapters organised according to their legendary dwelling place, be this land, sea, or air. Through this original approach, Juliette Wood provides the first study of mythical beasts in history from the medieval period to the present day, providing new insights into the ways these creatures continue to define our constantly changing relationship to both real and imagined worlds. It places particular emphasis on the role of the internet, computer games, and the cyberspace community, and in doing so, demonstrates that the core medieval myth surrounding these creatures remains static within the ever-increasing arena of mass marketing and the internet. This is a vital resource for undergraduates studying fantastic creatures in history, literature and media studies.
Author: William Hansen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 0691195927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories- from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes.
Author: Stith Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780520033597
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.
Author: Hélène Adeline Guerber
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 556
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: E. T. C. Werner
Publisher: The Floating Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 177541440X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe West's first encounters with the folk tales and myths of the East proved to be a heady experience, as they were based on an entirely different value system and worldview than those that are reflected in the Greek myths and most subsequent Western folk tales. In Myths and Legends of China, author E.T.C. Werner offers up a rich tapestry of Chinese folk narratives. A must-read for fans of world myths, fairy tales, and legends.
Author: Donna Rosenberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers folklore, myths and legends in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, and the Far East.
