Author: Elizabeth Laird
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781845078690
Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 95

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Anthologies.

Author: Elizabeth Laird
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781845078706
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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For millennia, Somalia has been crossed and recrossed by camel caravans of merchants bringing stories with them. Elizabeth Laird heard most of these oral retellings in Jigjiga, the capital of Ethiopia's Somali region, in gardens, bars, small huts and beautiful old Harari houses. Some of them are written down here for the very first time. This wonderful collection of down-to-earth tales makes a perfect introduction to a fascinating and little-known country.

Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874835908
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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Includes twenty folktales that encourage audience participation.

Author: Joseph Fontenrose
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520312767
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 650

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.

Author: Andrew Teverson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351609947
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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The Fairy Tale World is a definitive volume on this ever-evolving field. The book draws on recent critical attention, contesting romantic ideas about timeless tales of good and evil, and arguing that fairy tales are culturally astute narratives that reflect the historical and material circumstances of the societies in which they are produced. The Fairy Tale World takes a uniquely global perspective and broadens the international, cultural, and critical scope of fairy-tale studies. Throughout the five parts, the volume challenges the previously Eurocentric focus of fairy-tale studies, with contributors looking at: • the contrast between traditional, canonical fairy tales and more modern reinterpretations; • responses to the fairy tale around the world, including works from every continent; • applications of the fairy tale in diverse media, from oral tradition to the commercialized films of Hollywood and Bollywood; • debates concerning the global and local ownership of fairy tales, and the impact the digital age and an exponentially globalized world have on traditional narratives; • the fairy tale as told through art, dance, theatre, fan fiction, and film. This volume brings together a selection of the most respected voices in the field, offering ground-breaking analysis of the fairy tale in relation to ethnicity, colonialism, feminism, disability, sexuality, the environment, and class. An indispensable resource for students and scholars alike, The Fairy Tale World seeks to discover how such a traditional area of literature has remained so enduringly relevant in the modern world.

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Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067425614X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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The national folk epic of Finland is here presented in an English translation that is both scholarly and eminently readable. To avoid the imprecision and metrical monotony of earlier verse translations, Francis Magoun has used prose, printed line for line as in the original so that repetitions, parallelisms, and variations are readily apparent. The lyrical passages and poetic images, the wry humor, the tall-tale extravagance, and the homely realism of the Kalevala come through with extraordinary effectiveness.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: Kelly Barnhill
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
ISBN: 1643752871
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 393

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A National Book Award finalist and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow who promises he alone can help. After all, he is a famous dragon slayer. (At least, no one has seen a dragon in his presence.) Only the clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress at the edge of town can see how dire the town’s problems are. Then one day a child goes missing from the Orphan House. At the Mayor’s suggestion, all eyes turn to the Ogress. The Orphans know this can’t be: the Ogress, along with a flock of excellent crows, secretly delivers gifts to the people of Stone-in-the-Glen. But how can the Orphans tell the story of the Ogress’s goodness to people who refuse to listen? And how can they make their deluded neighbors see the real villain in their midst?

Author: Elias Lönnrot
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674500105
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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This prose translation of Finland's national folk epic vividly recounts the folkways of Kaeol-Finnish peasant life.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armenia
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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