Author: Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Americans at Home
Author: Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature
Author: Carolyn Schmidt Brown
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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To Carolyn Brown s mind, the tall tale is not necessarily an account of the adventures of a larger-than-life hero, nor is it just a humorous first-person narrative exaggerated to outlandish proportions. It is as well an interaction between teller and audience a game played at the hazy border between the credible and the incredible, a challenge and an entertainment at the same time. The tall tale is also a social statement that identifies and binds a folk group by flaunting the peculiar knowledge and experiences of group members, and it is a tool for coping with a stressful or even chaotic world, for conquering life s problems by laughing at them.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496271
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
To Carolyn Brown s mind, the tall tale is not necessarily an account of the adventures of a larger-than-life hero, nor is it just a humorous first-person narrative exaggerated to outlandish proportions. It is as well an interaction between teller and audience a game played at the hazy border between the credible and the incredible, a challenge and an entertainment at the same time. The tall tale is also a social statement that identifies and binds a folk group by flaunting the peculiar knowledge and experiences of group members, and it is a tool for coping with a stressful or even chaotic world, for conquering life s problems by laughing at them.
Nothing New
Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Seymour and His Friends. A Novel. By the Author of “The Secret Marriage.” [i.e. Miss F. Williams.]
Memoirs of Rachel
Author: A de [Barrera (Mme.])
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The two aristocracies
Author: Catherine Grace F. Gore
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Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Journal of an English Officer in India
Author: Charles Napier North (Lieutenant-Colonel, 60th Rifles.)
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Memoirs of Rachel, by madame de B-.
The Crescent and the Cross
Author: Eliot Warburton
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Songs of the Cavaliers and Roundheads, Jacobite ballads, &c. &c. ... With illustrations by H. S. Marks
Author: George Walter THORNBURY
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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