Author: Isabella Mary AndertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Tuscan Folk-lore and Sketches
Author: Isabella Mary AndertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Tuscan Folk-lore and Sketches
Author: Isabella Mary AndertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Folklore by the Fireside
Author: Alessandro FalassiPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292772270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this custom—from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship songs and dances later in the evening to the anti-veglia male gossip, card games, and protest songs originating in the tavern. Alessandro Falassi skillfully correlates the veglia to the rites of passage and family values of an agrarian society. Although the impact of mass media and other factors has tended to weaken the tradition, even today Tuscan children are taught to behave and adolescents are guided along the conventional path to adulthood, courtship, and marriage through veglia folklore. This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values. It is important not only for its careful, detailed description but also for its rigorous methodology and theoretical richness.
Fairy Tales from Tuscany
Author: Isabella M. AndertonPublisher:
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Best Books: Class A, Theology. B, Mythology and folklore. C, Philosophy. 1910
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Best Books
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
In and Out of Florence
Author: Vernon Lyman KelloggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Studio
Author: The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales
Author: Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624660347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the period of the Golden Age of folk and fairy tales, when European folklorists sought to understand and redefine the present through the common tales of the past, and long neglected stories became recognized as cultural treasures. In this rich collection, distinguished expert of fairy tales Jack Zipes continues his lifelong exploration of the story-telling tradition with a focus on the Golden Age. Included are one hundred eighty-two tales--many available in English for the first time--grouped into eighteen tale types. Zipes provides an engaging general Introduction that discusses the folk and fairy tale tradition, the impact of the Brothers Grimm, and the significance of categorizing tales into various types. Short introductions to each tale type that discuss its history, characteristics, and variants provide readers with important background information. Also included are annotations, short biographies of folklorists of the period, and a substantial bibliography. Eighteen original art works by students of the art department of Anglia Ruskin University not only illustrate the eighteen tale types, but also provide delightful—and sometimes astonishing—21st-century artistic interpretations of them.