[PDF] Tales Alive In Turkey By Warren S Walker And Ahmet E Uysal eBook

Author : Warren S. Walker
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780896722866

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More Tales Alive in Turkey is a sequel to Tales Alive in Turkey, the two volumes providing a survey of the wide range of Turkish oral narrative. Materials for both are drawn entirely from the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative at Texas Tech University. Whereas the tales in the earlier volume were collected between 1961 and 1964, most of those in More Tales Alive in Turkey were taped in Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Warren S. Walker
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Sixty-seven folktales and anecdotes recorded and translated for those seeking an introduction to the Turkish tradition of oral literature.

Author : Warren S. Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131777728X

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First published in 1996. A ten-hour tale, long enough to fill a night in the telling, artful enough to keep all its listeners eagerly awake: such marathon narratives constitute a recurrent theme found in folktales worldwide. This entire book records, annotates and interprets one such rare performance, by Behcet Mahir. a man who joins great storytellers whose art has survived their deaths and transcended their native communities to become the shared heritage of a worldwide audience of lovers of oral tales.

Author : Matilda Koén-Sarano
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2004-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081434187X

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These folktales remain a powerful link between modern-day Spanish Jews and the Hispano-Jewish legacy—this collection passes along that legacy and provides a source of the customs and values of Sephardic Jews.

Author : Howard J Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317451643

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Here is a treasury of favorite and little known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information of their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of folklore, its purpose in world cultures and in contemporary society and popular culture. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. Each section begins by comparing the tales cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the folkloric narratives. Tales from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion.

Author : Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1477303618

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Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accepted Western image of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ottomans as backward and impoverished. In the first book on this topic in English in over sixty years, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn contends that Ottoman society and culture created a fertile environment that fostered diverse scientific activity. She demonstrates that the Ottomans excelled in adapting the inventions of others to their own needs and improving them. For example, in 1877, the Ottoman Empire boasted the seventh-longest electric telegraph system in the world; indeed, the Ottomans were among the era’s most advanced nations with regard to modern communication infrastructure. To substantiate her claims about science in the empire, Shefer-Mossensohn studies patterns of learning; state involvement in technological activities; and Turkish- and Arabic-speaking Ottomans who produced, consumed, and altered scientific practices. The results reveal Ottoman participation in science to have been a dynamic force that helped sustain the six-hundred-year empire.

Author : Marjorie Dundas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781578063727

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Seventy- nine tales that show how riddles pervade storytelling worldwide