Author: Stith ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Presents the best-recognized form of popular tales from the oral traditions of many European nations.
One Hundred Favorite Folktales
Author: Stith ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Presents the best-recognized form of popular tales from the oral traditions of many European nations.
One Hundred Favorite Folktales
Author: Stith ThompsonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253201720
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Presents the best-recognized form of popular tales from the oral traditions of many European nations.
One Hundred Favorite Folktales Chosen
Author: Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Author: Jane YolenPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0804152861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
One Hundred Favorite Folktales. Chosen by Stith Thompson. Drawings by Franz Altschuler
Author: Stith ThompsonEscape from the Future
Author: Vladimir PetrovPublisher:
ISBN: 9780253201720
Category : Convict labor
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Folktales of India
Author: Brenda E. F. BeckPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226040860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this collection emphasize universal human characteristics—truthfulness, modesty, loyalty, courage, generosity, and honesty. Each story is meant to be savored individually with special attention given to the great range of motifs presented and the many distinct narrative styles used. Folktales of India offers a superb anthology of India's bountiful narrative tradition. "This collection does an excellent job of representing India. . . . It is the type of book that can be enjoyed by all readers who love a well-told tale as well as by scholars of traditional narrative and scholars of India in general."—Hugh M. Flick, Jr., Asian Folklore Studies "The stories collected here are representative, rich in structural subtlety, and endowed with fresh earthy humor."—Kunal Chakraborti, Contributions to Indian Sociology
Tales of the North American Indians
Author: Stith ThompsonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253200914
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Collection of Indian tales in which each tale is shown to be representative of a certain type of tale which occurs in more than one tribe or geographical region.
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
Author: Joanna ColePublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385189494
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
This collection of over two hundred folk and fairy tales from all over the world is the only edition that encompasses all cultures. Arranged geographically by region—West and East Europe, British Isles, Scandinavia, and Northern Europe, Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Africa, North America, the Carribean and West Indies, and Central and South America—and lovingly selected from the personal favorites of folklorists and writers, this book is a major anthology in its field. Gathered together in this wide-ranging collection are familiar classics like "Snow-White" and "Sleeping Beauty," and stories that equal them from all major cultures. Together they offer magic, adventure, laughter, reflection, vivid images, and a throng of colorful characters. More important, they offer insight into the oral traditions of different cultures and deal with universal human dilemmas that span differences of age, culture, and geography. Animal fables, proverbs, ghost stories, funny tales, and tales of enchantment provide a unique reading experience for all ages. A category index groups the tales by plot and character, e.g., humorous, supernatural, and "pourquoi" tales, married couples, enchanted sweethearts, etc. Like all great literature, these tales can be read with fascination on many levels, making Best-Loved Folktales of the World a classic and enduring collection.
Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
Author: Kathleen RaganPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
One hundred great folk tales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what it means to be a woman. It is for our daughters and our sons, so that they can learn to value all kinds of courage, courage in battle and the courage of love. It is for all of us to help build a more just vision of woman.