Author: Fletcher S. BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in All Lands and at All Times
Author: Fletcher S. BassettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Dictionary of Nature Myths
Author: Tamra AndrewsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195136772
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this informative volume is a rich introduction to the world of nature as experienced by ancient peoples around the globe. 51 halftones.
Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore
Author: Books Out-of-print
Author: A Book of Golden Deeds
Author: Charlotte Mary YongePublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane GoldsteinPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0874216818
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Children's Literature Collections
Author: Keith O'SullivanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137597577
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This book provides scholars, both national and international, with a basis for advanced research in children’s literature in collections. Examining books for children published across five centuries, gathered from the collections in Dublin, this unique volume advances causes in collecting, librarianship, education, and children’s literature studies more generally. It facilitates processes of discovery and recovery that present various pathways for researchers with diverse interests in children’s books to engage with collections. From book histories, through bookselling, information on collectors, and histories of education to close text analyses, it is evident that there are various approaches to researching collections. In this volume, three dominant approaches emerge: history and canonicity, author and text, ideals and institutions. Through its focus on varied materials, from fiction to textbooks, this volume illuminates how cities can articulate a vision of children's literature through particular collections and institutional practices.
The Crowd
Author: Gustave Le BonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crowds
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The New Statesman
Author: Salt and Sea Dogs: The Pirates of Tellene
Author: Travis StoutPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1889182907
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description