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Book Synopsis Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan by : Noriko T. Reider
Download or read book Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan written by Noriko T. Reider and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents seven oni stories from medieval Japan in full and translated for an English-speaking audience. Reider, concordant with many scholars of Japanese cultural studies, argues that to study oni is to study humanity. These tales are from an era in which many new oni stories appeared for the purpose of both entertainment and moral/religious edification and for which oni were particularly important, as they were perceived to be living entities. They reflect not only the worldview of medieval Japan but also themes that inform twenty-first-century Japanese pop and vernacular culture, including literature, manga, film, and anime. With each translation, Reider includes an introductory essay exploring the historical and cultural importance of the characters and oni manifestations within this period. Offering new insights into and interpretations of not only the stories therein but also the entire genre of Japanese ghost stories, Seven Demon Stories is a valuable companion to Reider’s 2010 volume Japanese Demon Lore. It will be of significant value to folklore scholars as well as students of Japanese culture.
Book Synopsis Tales from the Crypt by : Randall Boyll
Download or read book Tales from the Crypt written by Randall Boyll and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly successful HBO series Tales from the Crypt--the brainchild of Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump), Joel Silver (Die Hard), and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon)--makes the transition to the big screen with a movie project sure to propel the Crypt Keeper to superstar status.
Book Synopsis The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales by : Haruo Shirane
Download or read book The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales written by Haruo Shirane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haruo Shirane and Burton Watson, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese folktales. These dramatic and often amusing stories offer a major view of the foundations of Japanese culture.
Book Synopsis Demon and Other Tales by : Joyce Carol Oates
Download or read book Demon and Other Tales written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prince of Ice written by Emma Holly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emma Holly loves to take a walk on the wild side," (Best Reviews) and here she ventures into a sensuous and dangerous world where a human courtesan becomes the flesh abd blood property of a demon prince. Soulmates, lovers - and victims of an unnatural desire that could drive them both insane.
Download or read book Batman written by Dennis O'Neil and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raz Al Ghul has always been one of Batman's most challenging adversaries. Dubbed "The Demon", he is the product of many years of mystical study which has led to numerous occult rejuvenations on his part and the amassing of a huge secret empire. More than a master criminal, he is a demigod with one purpose: to save the earth from mankind's destruction.
Book Synopsis Chinese Demon Tales by : Ping-Chiu Yen
Download or read book Chinese Demon Tales written by Ping-Chiu Yen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1990, is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature. Interest in vernacular stories is increasing in the study of Chinese literature, as their importance is being recognised as a key part of the oral traditional narrative. From the analysis of the five Chinese tales in light of literary, historical, philological sources and folkloristic methodologies we may see to what extent tales of an intrinsically religious nature can offer meanings in the oral tradition.
Book Synopsis Chinese Demon Tales by : Ping-Chiu Yen
Download or read book Chinese Demon Tales written by Ping-Chiu Yen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1990, is a thematic analysis of five tales of early vernacular Chinese literature in light of literary, historical, philological sources and folkloristic methodologies in order to see to what extent tales of an intrinsically religious nature can offer meanings in the oral tradition.
Book Synopsis The Demon's Daughter by : Emma Holly
Download or read book The Demon's Daughter written by Emma Holly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Inspector Adrian Philips's job to keep the peace between humans and demons in Avvar. Part demon, part human, he's hated by both sides. But when he meets Roxanne, a fellow outcast, he finds in her everything his soul needs--and his body yearns for. The question is, will the exquisite pleasure they find together be worth the dangerous wrath of their enemies?
Book Synopsis Demon in the Woods by : Charles Edwin Price
Download or read book Demon in the Woods written by Charles Edwin Price and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monster fish sighted in Watauga and Boone Lakes, the so-called Wampas Cat, and a witchy horse that found a little lost girl wandering on Embreeville Mountain—these are but a few of the stories retold in this book of East Tennessee tales. Other stories include the Cherokee legends of creation and fire, a witch who drove people mad, a personal account of a miraculous cure, lost civilizations in the middle of Cherokee National Forest, and a host of death and burial superstitions.
Download or read book A Demon's Tale written by M.P. Bryant III and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Demons Tale" "Little Mikey thought thing's at home were bad,that is until he stumbles into Germany's 'Black forest,'within an attempt to run away from home...and encounters a 1,500 year- old demon (consealed within an eerie cave)in posession of a book, so evil, that God spits upon it's very existance.... Just when the young boy assumes death inevitable...he's told a story by the demon that ultimately changes everything...." "As the terrifying tale unfolds,the child discovers how this unique demon (who was once a child himself)rose to become what he now is... yet,the very real question remains,is Mikey willing to exchange his already condemned soul for a far greater evil,than he has ever known...?"
Book Synopsis The Monkey Chief & the Demon - Tales From Jataka by : Appu Series
Download or read book The Monkey Chief & the Demon - Tales From Jataka written by Appu Series and published by Media Fusion India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age old question of ‘brain or brawn' finds its solution in this enchanting tale.
Book Synopsis Russian Tales of Demonic Possession by : Marcia A. Morris
Download or read book Russian Tales of Demonic Possession written by Marcia A. Morris and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian Tales of Demonic Possession: Translations of Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia is a translation from the Russian of two stories of demonic possession, of innocence lost and regained. The original versions of both tales date back to the seventeenth century, but the feats of suffering and triumph described in them are timeless. Aleksei Remizov, one of Russia’s premiere modernists, recognized the relevance of the late-medieval material for his own mid-twentieth-century readers and rewrote both tales, publishing them in 1951 under the title The Demoniacs. The volumeoffers a new translation of the original Tale of Savva Grudtsyn as well as first-ever translations of The Tale of The Demoniac Solomonia and Remizov’s Demoniacs. Russian Tales of Demonic Possession opens with an introduction that interprets and contextualizes both the late-medieval and the twentieth-century tales. By providing new critical interpretations of all four tales as well as a short discussion of the history of demons in Russia, this introduction makes an eerily exotic world accessible to today’s English-speaking audiences. Savva Grudtsyn and Solomonia, the protagonists of the two tales, are young people poised on the threshold of adulthood. When demons suddenly appear to confront and overmaster them, each of them teeters on the brink of despair in a world filled with chaos and temptation. The Tale of Savva Grudtsyn and The Tale of the Demoniac Solomonia propel us forcibly into the realm of good and evil and pose hard questions: Why does evil afflict us? How does it manifest itself? How can it be overcome? Aleksey Remizov’s modernist re-castings of the two stories offer compelling evidence that these same questions are very much with us today and are still in need of answers.
Book Synopsis Japanese Demon Lore by : Noriko T. Reider
Download or read book Japanese Demon Lore written by Noriko T. Reider and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual, and especially in modern contexts, even cute and lovable. There has been much ambiguity in their character and identity over their long history. Usually male, their female manifestations convey distinctivly gendered social and cultural meanings. Oni appear frequently in various arts and media, from Noh theater and picture scrolls to modern fiction and political propaganda, They remain common figures in popular Japanese anime, manga, and film and are becoming embedded in American and international popular culture through such media. Noriko Reiderýs book is the first in English devoted to oni. Reider fully examines their cultural history, multifaceted roles, and complex significance as "others" to the Japanese.
Book Synopsis The Demon Slayers and Other Stories by : Sayantani DasGupta
Download or read book The Demon Slayers and Other Stories written by Sayantani DasGupta and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Bengali folk tales. Among the stories of princes, devata (deities) and bloodthirsty rashash (demons), stories of women's lives and images emerge. Women and their goddeses bring to life not only the nurturing Bengali motherland itself, but demons as well.
Book Synopsis The Demon's Lexicon by : Sarah Rees Brennan
Download or read book The Demon's Lexicon written by Sarah Rees Brennan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Nick and his brother, Alan, are always ready to run. Their father is dead, and their mother is crazy—she screams if Nick gets near her. She’s no help in protecting any of them from the deadly magicians who use demons to work their magic. The magicians want a charm that Nick’s mother stole—and they want it badly enough to kill. Alan is Nick’s partner in demon slaying and the only person he trusts in the world. So things get very scary and very complicated when Nick begins to suspect that everything Alan has told him about their father, their mother, their past, and what they are doing is a complete lie. . . .
Download or read book Demon Ex Machina written by Julie Kenner and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Kenner (aka J. Kenner) comes the fifth installment in the fun-tastic demon-hunting soccer mom series that began with Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom Demon-Hunter Kate Connor is having a very bad month.Her resurrected first husband houses the soul of a demon.Her current husband is being overly attentive to the point of smothering.Her toddler son has entered a tantrum phase.And her teenage daughter is still determined to be the next, best demon slayer. Worse, she
