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Book Synopsis The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends by : Jan Harold Brunvand
Download or read book The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-10-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's foremost folk-detective is back, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to your sister's boyfriend's accountant. Here, Brunvand tracks the tales making today's dinner party circuit - tales such as "The Body in the Bed"
Download or read book Storytelling written by Josepha Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.
Book Synopsis Mots de L'histoire by : Jacques Rancière
Download or read book Mots de L'histoire written by Jacques Rancière and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History in our day is still a story, and yet one from which we expect to tell the truth - not just the facts, the names and events of the past, but the invisible order and forces behind them. How can the language of history balance these seemingly contrary tasks - the narrative, the scientific, and the political? This is the question Jacques Ranciere explores in "The names of history", a meditation on the poetics of historical knowledge. In the works of writers from Jules Michelet to Fernand Braudel, Ranciere traces an ongoing revolution in historical study, a movement that challenged, in the practice of language, the opposition of science and literature. By way of a commentary on Erich Auerbach, he shows how fictional narrative intertwines with historical narrative to produce a "truth" that retains mythical elements. The poetics of knowledge Ranciere develops here is an attempt to identify the literary procedures by which historical discourse escapes literature and gives itself the status of a science. His book is also an appreciation of Braudel, whose work in the Annales school greatly advanced this project. Ranciere follows and extends Braudel's discursive production of new agencies of history, which accounts for both the material conditions in which history takes place and the language in which it is written.
Download or read book Shorthorn Country written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories by : Timothy R. Tangherlini
Download or read book Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories written by Timothy R. Tangherlini and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories is a collection of translated and annotated Nordic folklore that presents full repertoires of five storytellers along with extensive archival material. The printed book presents some of the most compelling stories of these five important storytellers along with historical and biographical introductions. Of a length suitable for course use, it provides a substantive and enjoyable encounter with Danish folklore. The Danish Folklore Nexus on the accompanying DVD includes the storytellers' full repertoires plus 500 additional stories in both Danish and English along with essays on the changing political, social, and economic landscapes of nineteenth-century Denmark, the history of folklore scholarship, critical approaches to folklore, and comprehensive biographies of the storytellers. It also provides links between related stories and interactive maps that allow readers to see where the stories are set and where they were collected, and a mechanism to search for themes and topics across all the stories. The basis of the work is the collection of Evald Tang Kristensen (1843-1929). As a young schoolteacher Kristensen set out across Denmark to collect the folktales, ballads, legends, and stories that he saw as the vestiges of a disappearing folk culture. Over the course of five decades he collected thousands of stories and kept detailed biographical notes about the storytellers he met. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecojItKZ8SI&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=2&feature=plcp
Book Synopsis Stella and Sol: The Complete Series by : Kimberly Loth
Download or read book Stella and Sol: The Complete Series written by Kimberly Loth and published by Kimberly Loth. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prince from the dark side shows up at my doorstep with one question. Will I be his bride? I have many, many reasons to say no. The prince comes from a land of barbarians. I will never again see the sun. It is a certain death sentence. At first, it seems that I have a choice. But I discover that if I say no, Thousands will die. All of those lives hang on my answer to that one simple question. Will I say yes or will I say no? For Fans of: Elise Kova, Leia Stone, Lola Glass, Linsey Hall, Eva Chase, and CN Crawford
Download or read book The Converted Catholic written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wide Awake written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 12-13 include the separately paged supplement: Warlock o'Glenwarlock... By George Macdonald.
Book Synopsis Maternal Megalomania by : Julie Langford
Download or read book Maternal Megalomania written by Julie Langford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the maternal image of the empress Julia Domna helped the Roman empire rule. Ancient authors emphasize dramatic moments in the life of Julia Domna, wife of Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193–211). They accuse her of ambition unforgivable in a woman, of instigating civil war to place her sons on the throne, and of resorting to incest to maintain her hold on power. In imperial propaganda, however, Julia Domna was honored with unprecedented titles that celebrated her maternity, whether it was in the role of mother to her two sons (both future emperors) or as the metaphorical mother to the empire. Imperial propaganda even equated her to the great mother goddess, Cybele, endowing her with a public prominence well beyond that of earlier imperial women. Her visage could be found gracing everything from state-commissioned art to privately owned ivory dolls. In Maternal Megalomania, Julie Langford unmasks the maternal titles and honors of Julia Domna as a campaign on the part of the administration to garner support for Severus and his sons. Langford looks to numismatic, literary, and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the propaganda surrounding the empress. She explores how her image was tailored toward different populations, including the military, the Senate, and the people of Rome, and how these populations responded to propaganda about the empress. She employs Julia Domna as a case study to explore the creation of ideology between the emperor and its subjects.
Book Synopsis Where There Is No Midwife by : Sarah Pinto
Download or read book Where There Is No Midwife written by Sarah Pinto and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author considers the women’s own experiences of birth and infant death, their ways of making-do, and the hierarchies they create and contend with. This book develops an approach to the care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and household and neighborly relations that these women are able to access. It shows that, as part of the concatenation of affect and access, globalized moralities about reproduction are dependent on ambiguous ideas about caste. Through the unfolding of birth and death, a new vision of "untouchability" emerges that is integral to visions of progress.
Book Synopsis Yorkshire Legends and Traditions by : Rev. Thomas Parkinson
Download or read book Yorkshire Legends and Traditions written by Rev. Thomas Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maiden, Mother, Crone by : Deanna J. Conway
Download or read book Maiden, Mother, Crone written by Deanna J. Conway and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAIDEN, MOTHER, CRONE presents the Trinity as ancient symbols of the Goddess, predating Christianity by thousands of years. The book explores longstanding myths and symbols, illuminating ancient, universal human challenges that still exist today. Together with in-depth explanations of goddess archetypes and their relevance to 20th century living, this book will lead you to a state of conscious awareness that can change your life.
Book Synopsis Yorkshire Legends and Traditions by : Thomas Parkinson
Download or read book Yorkshire Legends and Traditions written by Thomas Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Super Demonic Book written by Lao ShiRen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obtaining a book that could change him, a fatty began a new chapter in his life. All sorts of vampires, werewolves, Abyss Lords, ancient Evil Gods, and even the living female corpses of the Three Kingdoms' era would appear. What awaited the end was a showdown at the end of the century.
Book Synopsis A New Companion to The Gothic by : David Punter
Download or read book A New Companion to The Gothic written by David Punter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade. Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debates Offers comprehensive coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned Features important and original essays by leading scholars in the field The editor is widely recognized as the founder of modern criticism of the Gothic
Book Synopsis The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions by : Elias Kifon Bongmba
Download or read book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions written by Elias Kifon Bongmba and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions brings together a team of international scholars to create a single-volume resource on the religious beliefs and practices of the peoples in Africa. Offers broad coverage of issues relating to African religions, considering experiences in indigenous, Christian, and Islamic traditions across the continent Contributors are from a variety of fields, ensuring the volume offers multidisciplinary perspectives Explores methodological approaches to religion from anthropological, philosophical, and historical perspectives Provides insights into the historical developments in African religions, as well as contemporary issues such as the development of African-initiated churches, neo traditional religions, and Pentecostalism Discusses important topics at the intersection of culture and religion in Africa, including the arts, health, politics, globalization, gender relations, and the economy
Download or read book The Eumenides written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
