Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Young Folks' Treasury: Myths and legendary heros
Author: Young Folk's Treasury Volume II - in 12 Volumes
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473398770
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This is a wonderful collection of myths and legends adapted for the young reader. It includes tales from ancient Greece, Scandinavia, Japan, India, Great Britain, and many other locations and civilisations. This is a fantastic collection for exposing children to the classic stories of the past. Accompanying our republication of this volume, we have included a brand new introductory biography on the editor of the work, American Essayist, Hamilton Wright Mabie.
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Author: The Mother's Book
Author: Caroline French BentonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars
Author: Bruce LincolnPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226035166
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion—historians of religions, he believes, should resist the preferred narratives and self-understanding of religions themselves, especially when their stories are endowed with sacred origins and authority. In Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars, Lincoln assembles a collection of essays that both illustrates and reveals the benefits of his methodology, making a case for a critical religious studies that starts with skepticism but is neither cynical nor crude. The book begins with Lincoln’s “Theses on Method” and ends with “The (Un)discipline of Religious Studies,” in which he unsparingly considers the failings of uncritical and nonhistorical approaches to the study of religions. In between, Lincoln presents new examinations of problems in ancient religions and relates these cases to larger comparative themes. While bringing to light important features of the formation of pantheons and the constructions of demons, chaos, and the dead, Lincoln demonstrates that historians of religions should take religious things—inspired scriptures, sacred centers, salvific rites, communities graced by divine favor—as the theories of interested humans that shape perception, community, and experiences. As he shows, it is for their terrestrial influence, and not their sacred origins, that religious phenomena merit consideration by the historian. Tackling many questions central to religious study, Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars will be a touchstone for the history of religions in the twenty-first century.
Chivalric Stories as Children's Literature
Author: Velma Bourgeois RichmondPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786496223
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Knights and ladies, giants and dragons, tournaments, battles, quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics, romances, sagas, legends and ballads. Stories of Beowulf, Arthur, Gawain, St. George, Roland, Robin Hood and many more thrilled and instructed children, and encouraged adult reading. Lavish volumes and schoolbooks of the era featured illustrated texts, many by major artists. Children's books, an essential part of Edwardian publishing, were disseminated throughout the English-speaking world. Many are being reprinted today. This book examines related contexts of Medievalism expressed in painting, architecture, music and public celebrations, and the works of major authors, including Sir Walter Scott, Tennyson, Longfellow and William Morris. The book explores national identity expressed through literature, ideals of honor and valor in the years before World War I, and how childhood reading influenced 20th-century writers as diverse as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming and John Le Carre.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1860
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Beowulf as Children’s Literature
Author: Bruce GilchristPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487502702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Beowulf as Children's Literature brings together a group of scholars and creators to address important issues of adapting the Old English poem into textual and pictorial forms that appeal to children, past and present.
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
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