[PDF] World Folklore For Storytellers Tales Of Wonder Wisdom Fools And Heroes eBook

Author : Howard J Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,4 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.

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Page : pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Folk literature
ISBN : 9781780340609

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A treasury of favorite and little-known tales from around the globe--from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania. It is an engaging, informative, and captivating one-stop source for the world's folklore and tales.

Author : Howard J Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317451635

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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 : Graham Seal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1440838615

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This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.

Author : Cheryl A. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429675259

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First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

Author : Gus Snedeker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Legends
ISBN : 9781422224946

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Have you heard of Anansi, the mischief-making spider from Africa? Do you know about the Blackfoot woman who married a star? Or have you heard stories about Jack, the hero who always wins both the treasure and the princess's heart? Discover stories from North America's folklore, including tales about: * why the world is the way it is * heroes and fools * ghosts and horrors * death and the world to come. Stories have power. They share the wisdom of other generations. They stir our imagination. They give us hope and courage. And sometimes they just make us laugh!

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Publisher : august house
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834222

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Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.

Author : Heather Forest
Publisher : August House Publishers
Page : pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Storytelling
ISBN : 9781461902010

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A collection of folktales from many cultures told in a combination of poetry, prose, original melody, and guitar.

Author : Heather Forest
Publisher : august house
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780874834796

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A collection of traditional stories from around the world, reflecting the cumulative wisdom of Sufi, Zen, Taoist, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, African, and Native American cultures.

Author : Heather Forest
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1995-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780613903165

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Includes twenty-seven folktales from Europe, Asia, Africa, India, the Arctic, and the Americas.