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Author : Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Propp
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452902210
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book Theory and History of Folklore written by Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Propp and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780880299022
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498290213
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore and Book Culture written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many observers, folklore and book culture may appear to be opposites. Folklore, after all, involves orally circulated stories and traditions while book culture is concerned with the transmission of written texts. However, as Kevin J. Hayes points out, there are many instances where the two intersect, and exploring those intersections is the purpose of this fascinating and provocative study. Hayes shows that the acquisition of knowledge and the ownership of books have not displaced folklore but instead have given rise to new beliefs and superstitions. Some books have generated new proverbs; others have fostered their own legends. Occasionally the book has served as an important motif in folklore, and in one folk genre—the flyleaf rhyme—the book itself has become the place where folklore occurs, thus indicating a lively interaction between folk, print, and manuscript culture. The author begins by examining the tradition of the Volksbücher—cheaply printed books, often concerned with the occult, whose powers are said to transcend the written text. Hayes looks in depth at one particular Volksbuch—The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses—and proceeds, in subsequent chapters, to discuss a variety of folktales and legends, placing them within the context of book culture and the history of education. He closes with an examination of flyleaf rhymes, the little verses that book owners have inscribed in their books, and considers what they reveal about the identity of the inscribers as well as about attitudes toward book lending, book borrowing, and the circulation of knowledge. Solidly researched and venturing into areas long neglected by scholars. Folklore and Book Culture is a work that will engage not only folklorists but historians and literary scholars as well.
Author : R. Gerald Alvey
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137780
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kentucky Folklore written by R. Gerald Alvey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1989-08-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Thicker'n fiddlers in hell. Independent as a hog on ice. If a bride makes her own clothes, it's bad luck. It'll snow in May if it thunders in February. How's a hen on a fence like a penny? What's the reddest side of an apple? Learn what folklore and folk culture are and enjoy a generous helping of sayings, rhymes, songs, tall tales, superstitions and riddles from Kentucky.
Author : Laura C. Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564402219
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wildflower Folklore written by Laura C. Martin and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIfe stories of 105 wildflowers, grouped according to their most frequently occurring color; brief description, scientific and common names; place and season to find them.
Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226158713
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore and Folklife written by Richard M. Dorson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the characteristics of folk cultures and discusses the procedures used by social scientists to study folklife.
Author : Horace Beck
Publisher : Booksales
ISBN 13 : 9780785811190
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore and the Sea written by Horace Beck and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace Beck, a former professor of American Literature at Middlebury College, has been gathering the sea's folklore for 70 years in Europe, North America, and the West Indies. This collection of legends, songs, superstitions, and stories, both true and apocryphal includes spectral ships, mermaids and mermen, pirates, sea language, sea monsters, navigation and weather lore, names on sea and shore, and much more. Library Journal called Folklore and the Sea "a browser's delight as well as a researcher's gold mine."
Author : Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019210019X
Total Pages : 997 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of English Folklore written by Jacqueline Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there any legends about cats? Is Cinderella an English story? What is (or was) a Mumming Play? The subject of folklore covers an extremely wide field, with connections to virtually every aspect of life. It ranges from the bizarre to the seemingly mundane. Similarly, folklore is as much afeature of the modern technological age as the ancient world, of every part of the country, both urban and rural, and of every age group and occupation. Containing 2,000 entries, from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this new reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore. Aimed at a broad general readership, the dictionary provides an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as the Babesin the Wood, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood, and gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore, from nosebleeds and wishbones to cats and hot cross buns.
Author : Kenneth L. Untiedt
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 157441223X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore written by Kenneth L. Untiedt and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore is everywhere, whether you are aware of it or not. A culture's traditional knowledge is used to remember the past and maintain traditions, to communicate with other members within a community, to learn, to celebrate, and to express creativity. It is what helps distinguish one culture from another. Although folklore is so much a part of our daily lives, we often lose sight of just how integral it is to everything we do. If we look for it, we can find folklore in places where we'd never think it existed. Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do includes articles on a variety of topics. One chapter looks at how folklore and history complement one another; while historical records provide facts about dates, places and names, folklore brings those events and people to life by making them relevant to us. Several articles examine the cultural roles women fill. Other articles feature folklore of particular groups, including oil field workers, mail carriers, doctors, engineers, police officers, horse traders, and politicians. As a follow-up article to Inside the Classroom (and Out), which focused on folklore in education, there is also an article on how teachers can use writing in the classroom as a means of keeping alive the storytelling tradition. The Texas Folklore Society has been collecting and preserving folklore since its first publication in 1912. Since then, it has published or assisted in the publication of nearly one hundred books on Texas folklore.
