Author: Folklore FellowsPublisher:
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
FF Communications
Author: Folklore FellowsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
FF Communications
Author: Folklore FellowsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
FCC Record
Author: United States. Federal Communications CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Folklore
Author: Joseph JacobsPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
The Folktale
Author: Stith ThompsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520035379
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
As 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.
The Legend of Miaoshan
Author: Glen DudbridgePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199266719
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The tale of a devout Buddhist girl who separates from her family and through suffering and death finally achieves divine status is a myth of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of the dead. It also presents a major symbol of the tension in women's lives between individual spiritual fulfillment and the imperatives of family duty. This is a new edition of the first full study of this important and influential Chinese legend.
The Power of Words
Author: James KapalóPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155225486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
n medieval and early modern Europe, the use of charms was a living practice in all strata of society. The essays in this latest CEU Press publication explore the rich textual tradition of archives, monasteries, and literary sources. The author also discusses texts amassed in folklore archives and ones that are still accessible through field work in many rural areas of Europe.
Personal Influence
Author: Elihu KatzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351500201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
First published in 1955, "Personal Influence" reports the results of a pioneering study conducted in Decatur, Illinois, validating Paul Lazarsfeld's serendipitous discovery that messages from the media may be further mediated by informal "opinion leaders" who intercept, interpret, and diffuse what they see and hear to the personal networks in which they are embedded. This classic volume set the stage for all subsequent studies of the interaction of mass media and interpersonal influence in the making of everyday decisions in public affairs, fashion, movie-going, and consumer behavior. The contextualizing essay in Part One dwells on the surprising relevance of primary groups to the flow of mass communication. Peter Simonson of the University of Pittsburgh has written that "Personal Influence was perhaps the most influential book in mass communication research of the postwar era, and it remains a signal text with historic significance and ongoing reverberations...more than any other single work, it solidified what came to be known as the dominant paradigm in the field, which later researchers were compelled either to cast off or build upon." In his introduction to this fiftieth-anniversary edition, Elihu Katz discusses the theory and methodology that underlie the Decatur study and evaluates the legacy of his coauthor and mentor, Paul F. Lazarsfeld.
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