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Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Western Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert B. Klymasz
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823147
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Folk narrative among Ukrainian-Canadians in western Canada written by Robert B. Klymasz and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a survey of the Ukrainian-Canadian folk narrative corpus as recorded in Western Canada in the 1960s. The four introductory chapters discuss the various changes illustrated by the collected field materials. A total of seventy-four selected folk narratives and other samples of oral traditions appear in the appendices.
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Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Western Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
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Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Treasury of Western Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
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Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (758 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Western Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
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Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Western Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk tales and song lyrics of the Old West of the United States. Divided into parts: The Western brand, "Fresh Deal All Aroun", Queer Country, Westward Journey, Taming the West, "Law and Order, Ltd.", The Changing West, Western Story-Tellers, Western Songs and Ballads.
Author : Austin E. Fife
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Exploring Western Americana written by Austin E. Fife and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Folk Music and Folklore Recordings written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Brandon Barker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253041104
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Folk Illusions written by K. Brandon Barker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell– these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In this groundbreaking study, K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice argue that these easily overlooked instances of children's folklore offer an important avenue for studying perception and cognition in the contexts of social and embodied development. Folk illusions are traditionalized verbal and/or physical actions that are performed with the intention of creating a phantasm for one or more participants. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the ethnographic methods of folklore with the empirical data of neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology, Barker and Rice catalogue over eighty discrete folk illusions while exploring the complexities of embodied perception. Taken together as a genre of folklore, folk illusions show that people, starting from a young age, possess an awareness of the illusory tendencies of perceptual processes as well as an awareness that the distinctions between illusion and reality are always communally formed.
Author : Norm Cohen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068812
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Long Steel Rail written by Norm Cohen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Author : Debra N. Mancoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131771413X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book King Arthur's Modern Return written by Debra N. Mancoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian legend. With an Introduction by noted scholar Raymond H. Thompson and 13 essays by authors from the fields of literature, art history, film history, and folklore, this collection reveals the flexibility of the legend. Just as the modern legend takes the form current to its generation, the myth of return generates a new legend with each telling. As these authors show, return can come in the form of a noble king or a Caribbean immigrant, with the mystery of an art theft or a dying boy's dream.
Author : C. Kurt Dewhurst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442272937
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Folklife and Museums written by C. Kurt Dewhurst and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today’s most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays that combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date “resources” and “suggested readings” sections. Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.
Author : Elizabeth Tucker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038652
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book New York State Folklife Reader written by Elizabeth Tucker and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York and its folklore scholars hold an important place in the history of the discipline. In New York dialogue between folklore researchers in the academy and those working in the public arena has been highly productive. In this volume, the works of New York's academic and public folklorists are presented together. Unlike some folklore anthologies, New York State Folklife Reader does not follow an organizational plan based on regions or genres. Because the New York Folklore Society has always tried to "give folklore back to the people," the editors decided to divide the edited volume into sections about life processes that all New York state residents share. The book begins with five essays on various aspects of folk cultural memory: personal, family, community, and historical processes of remembrance expressed through narrative, ritual, and other forms of folklore. Following these essays, subsequent sections explore aspects of life in New York through the lens of Play, Work, Resistance, and Food. Both the New York Folklore Society and its journal were, as society cofounder Louis Jones explained, "intended to reach not just the professional folklorists but those of the general public who were interested in the oral traditions of the State." Written in an accessible and readable style, this volume offers a glimpse into New York State's rich cultural diversity.
Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839447
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends written by Simon Young and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.
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Total Pages : 566 pages
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Download or read book Indiana Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles R. Gruner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351482378
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Game of Humor written by Charles R. Gruner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, wit, and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature, newspapers, and television we experience humor in many forms, yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune, stupidity, and moral or cultural defects, however faintly revealed in others and ourselves, seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting, such negative terms as superiority, aggression, hostility, ridicule, or degradation can be applied to instances of humor. According to scholars, Thomas Hobbes's "superiority theory"?that humor arises from mischances, infirmities, and indecencies, where there is no wit at all?applies to most humor. With the exception of good-natured play, Charles R. Gruner claims that humor is rarely as innocent as it first appears.Gruner's proposed superiority theory of humor is all-encompassing. In The Game of Humor, he expands the scope of Hobbes's theory to include and explore the contest aspect of "good-natured" play. As such, the author believes all instances of humor can be examined as games, in terms of competition and keeping score?winners and losers. Gruner draws on a broad spectrum of thought-provoking examples. Holocaust jokes, sexual humor, the racialist dialogue of such comic characters as Stepin Fetchit and Archie Bunker, simple puns, and many of the author's own encounters with everyday humor. Gruner challenges the reader to offer a single example of humor that cannot be "de-humorized" by its agonistic nature.The Game of Humor makes intriguing and enjoyable reading for people interested in humor and the aspects of human motivation. This book will also be valuable to professionals in communication and information studies, sociologists, literary critics and linguists, and psychologists concerned with the conflicts and tensions of everyday life.
Author : Lindsay Asquith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134325533
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century written by Lindsay Asquith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006-03-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issues surrounding the function and meaning of vernacular architecture in the twenty-first century are complex and extensive. Taking a distinctively rigorous theoretical approach, this book considers these issues from a number of perspectives, broadening current debate to a wider multidisciplinary audience. These collected essays from the leading experts in the field focus on theory, education and practice in this essential sector of architecture, and help to formulate solutions to the environmental, disaster management and housing challenges facing the global community today.
