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The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp

Author : Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081433721X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp written by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vladimir Propp is the Russian folklore specialist most widely known outside Russia thanks to the impact of his 1928 book Morphology of the Folktale-but Morphology is only the first of Propp's contributions to scholarship. This volume translates into English for the first time his book The Russian Folktale, which was based on a seminar on Russian folktales that Propp taught at Leningrad State University late in his life. Edited and translated by Sibelan Forrester, this English edition contains Propp's own text and is supplemented by notes from his students. The Russian Folktale begins with Propp's description of the folktale's aesthetic qualities and the history of the term; the history of folklore studies, first in Western Europe and then in Russia and the USSR; and the place of the folktale in the matrix of folk culture and folk oral creativity. The book presents Propp's key insight into the formulaic structure of Russian wonder tales (and less schematically than in Morphology, though in abbreviated form), and it devotes one chapter to each of the main types of Russian folktales: the wonder tale, the "novellistic" or everyday tale, the animal tale, and the cumulative tale. Even Propp's bibliography, included here, gives useful insight into the sources accessible to and used by Soviet scholars in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Propp's scholarly authority and his human warmth both emerge from this well-balanced and carefully structured series of lectures. An accessible introduction to the Russian folktale, it will serve readers interested in folklore and fairy-tale studies in addition to Russian history and cultural studies.

Theory and History of Folklore

Author : Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Propp
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452902210
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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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:

On the Comic and Laughter

Author : Vladimir Propp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442697202
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book On the Comic and Laughter written by Vladimir Propp and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-11-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The direct, humorous, and provocative style of this work, which tackles the subject of humour with a vast array of vivid examples encountered on every page, will certainly appeal to the contemporary reader. Vladimir Propp takes various forms of laughter in literature and real life and addresses questions such as the comic of similarity, the comic of difference, parody, duping, incongruity, lying, ritual laughter, and carnival laughter. The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.

Morphology of the Folk Tale

Author : V. Propp
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292748094
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Morphology of the Folk Tale written by V. Propp and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seminal work by the renowned Russian folklorist presents his groundbreaking structural analysis of classic fairytales and their genres. One of the most influential works of 20th century literary criticism, Vladimir Propp’s Morphology of the Folk Tale is essential reading for anyone interested in examining the structural characteristics of fairytales. Since it first appeared in English in 1958, this groundbreaking study has had a major impact on the work of folklorists, linguists, anthropologists, and literary critics. “Propp’s work is seminal…[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists who are directing their attention to the form of the folktale, especially those structural characteristics which are common to many entries coming from different cultures.”—Choice

International Folkloristics

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461637856
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book International Folkloristics written by Alan Dundes and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.

Mother Goose Refigured

Author : Christine A. Jones
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814338933
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Mother Goose Refigured written by Christine A. Jones and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (“Stories or Tales of the Past”) in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first “vogue” of tales produced by learned French writers. The genre that we now know so well was new and an uncommon kind of literature in the epic world of Louis XIV’s court. This inaugural collection of French fairy tales features characters like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Puss in Boots that over the course of the eighteenth century became icons of social history in France and abroad. Translating the original Histoires ou Contes means grappling not only with the strangeness of seventeenth-century French but also with the ubiquity and familiarity of plots and heroines in their famous English personae. From its very first translation in 1729, Histoires ou Contes has depended heavily on its English translations for the genesis of character names and enduring recognition. This dependability makes new, innovative translation challenging. For example, can Perrault’s invented name “Cendrillon” be retranslated into anything other than “Cinderella”? And what would happen to our understanding of the tale if it were? Is it possible to sidestep the Anglophone tradition and view the seventeenth-century French anew? Why not leave Cinderella alone, as she is deeply ingrained in cultural lore and beloved the way she is? Such questions inspired the translations of these tales in Mother Goose Refigured, which aim to generate new critical interest in heroines and heroes that seem frozen in time. The book offers introductory essays on the history of interpretation and translation, before retranslating each of the Histoires ou Contes with the aim to prove that if Perrault’s is a classical frame of reference, these tales nonetheless exhibit strikingly modern strategies. Designed for scholars, their classrooms, and other adult readers of fairy tales, Mother Goose Refigured promises to inspire new academic interpretations of the Mother Goose tales, particularly among readers who do not have access to the original French and have relied for their critical inquiries on traditional renderings of the tales.

The Malachite Casket

Author : Pavel Petrovich Bazhov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Malachite Casket written by Pavel Petrovich Bazhov and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Erotic Infidelities

Author : Kimberly J. Lau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814339336
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Erotic Infidelities written by Kimberly J. Lau and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the peculiar enchantments at the heart of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Carter's commitment to imagining unforeseen possibilities for heterosexual love and desire.

Russian Folk Lyrics

Author : Roberta Reeder
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207494
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Russian Folk Lyrics written by Roberta Reeder and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propp's essay in Russian Folk Lyrics extends beyond the formalistic analysis of folklore outlined in his classic The Morphology of the Folktale. In this study, newly translated by Roberta Reeder, Propp considers the Russian folk lyric in the social and historical context in which it was produced. Reeder supplements Propp's theoretical presentation with a comprehensive anthology of examples. Some songs were imitated by or appear in the works of Russia's major writers, such as Pushkin and Nekrasov. Here we find the customs of Russian peasant life expressed through the ritual of song. Whether the songs are about love, labor, or children's games; whether they are sad, humorous, or satiric in tone, Russian folk lyrics are rich in metaphor and symbolic meaning. In addition to the editor's notes to the text and songs, Reeder supplies a bibliography of Propp's sources as well as an extensive selected bibliography.

The Bloody Chamber

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143107615
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Bloody Chamber written by Angela Carter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book—featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative

Author : N. J. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139428306
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative written by N. J. Lowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and closure. This book traces the formation of that classical paradigm in the development of ancient storytelling from Homer to Heliodorus. To tell this story, the book sets out to rehabilitate the idea of 'plot', notoriously disconnected from any recognised system of terminology in literary theory. The first part of the book draws on developments in narratology and cognitive science to propose a way of formally describing the way stories are structured and understood. This model is then used to write a history of the emergence of the classical plot type in the four ancient genres that shaped it - Homeric epic, fifth-century tragedy, New Comedy, and the Greek novel - with insights into the fundamental narrative poetics of each.

Classical Mythology in Context

Author : Lisa Maurizio
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190081836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Classical Mythology in Context written by Lisa Maurizio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written for the way instructors teach and students learn, Classical Mythology in Context provides a truly contextualized treatment of classical myth that combines ancient sources, comparative perspectives, and modern and theoretical interpretations"...

The File on H.

Author : Ismail Kadare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 161145994X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The File on H. written by Ismail Kadare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1930s, two Irish Americans travel to the Albanian highlands with an early model of a marvelous invention, the tape recorder. Their mission? To discover how Homer could have composed works as brilliant and as long as The Iliad and The Odyssey without ever putting pen to paper. The answer, they believe, can be found only in Albania, the last remaining habitat of the oral epic. But immediately upon their arrival, the scholars’ seemingly arcane research excites suspicion and puts them at the center of ethnic strife in the Balkans. Mistaken for foreign spies, they are placed under surveillance and are dogged by gossip and intrigue. It isn’t until a fierce-eyed monk from the Serbian side of the mountains makes his appearance that the scholars glimpse the full political import of their search for the key to the Homeric question.

Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392541
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle' In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also includes an appendix, bibliography and notes. Translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler With Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson

Down Along the Mother Volga

Author : Roberta Reeder
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 151280553X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Down Along the Mother Volga written by Roberta Reeder and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

February Flowers

Author : Fan Wu
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330538543
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book February Flowers written by Fan Wu and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unlikely pair, seventeen-year-old Ming and twenty-four-year-old Yan meet and form an immediate bond. Ming, innocent and preoccupied, lives in her own world of books, music and imagination. Yan is, by contrast, beautiful, sexy, wild and manipulative. Their friendship is brief, almost accidental, but intense, and it changes Ming’s world forever. Set in modern China, February Flowers captures a society torn between tradition and modernity, dogma and freedom. It is a meditation on friendship, family, love, loss and redemption, and how a background shapes a life. ‘A first novel whose psychic terrain is the hinterland between girlhood and womanhood, lust and love, tradition and progress . . . Subtle and deftly paced, it’s ultimately a story about sheer awakening’ Observer ‘February Flowers enters the past as it was lived, in real-time and without the props of hindsight’ Financial Times ‘An exquisitely beautiful book about that uncertain border between girlhood and womanhood, between passion and desire, a country only too familiar to all women’ SANDRA CISNEROS

Anna Akhmatova

Author : Roberta Reeder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932800234
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Anna Akhmatova written by Roberta Reeder and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting biography tells the tragic story of one of our century's great poets. Born to aristocracy, Anna was raised in St. Petersburg in the twilight of the Romanov dynasty. With gift for poetry and prophecy, she became a cult figure among the intelligentsia of the Silver Age. Inclues 39 pages of photos.