Folklore Of Nova Scotia By Mary L Fraser

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American Folklore

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135578788
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book American Folklore written by Jan Harold Brunvand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-24 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority

The Feminine Gaze

Author : Anne Innis Dagg
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 088920845X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Feminine Gaze written by Anne Innis Dagg and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction? When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors better known, she expected to find just a few dozen. To her delight, she unearthed 473 writers who have produced over 674 books. These women describe not only their country and its inhabitants, but a remarkable variety of other subjects: from the story of transportation to the legacy of Canadian missionary activity around the world. While most of the writers lived in what is now Canada, other authors were British or American travellers who visited Canada throughout the years and reported on what they found here. This compendium has brief biographies of all these women, short descriptions of their books, and a comprehensive index of their books’ subject matters. The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945 will be an invaluable research tool for women’s studies and for all who wish to supplement the male gaze on Canada’s past.

Quest of the Folk

Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077357543X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Quest of the Folk written by Ian McKay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.

Folklore of Nova Scotia

Author : Mary L. Fraser
Publisher : Canada? : s.n.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Folklore of Nova Scotia written by Mary L. Fraser and published by Canada? : s.n.. This book was released on 1932 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quest of the Folk, CLS Edition

Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773583300
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Quest of the Folk, CLS Edition written by Ian McKay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false, argues Ian McKay. In The Quest of the Folk he shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. McKay offers an in-depth analysis of the infusion of a folk ideology into the art and literature of the region and the use of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion. He examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society, class and ethnic differences, and women's emancipation. In doing so he sheds new light on the roles of Helen Creighton, the Maritime region's most famous folklorist, and Mary Black, an influential handicrafts revivalist, in creating this false identity.

Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada

Author : W. Peter Ward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773507493
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada written by W. Peter Ward and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that freedom to love, court, and marry in nineteenth-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behavior of young couples both before and after marriage.

Fairies

Author : Janet Bord
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782432442
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Fairies written by Janet Bord and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet Bord's fascinating investigation of this unexplored aspect of the supernatural reveals where you might be expected to meet fairies, under what circumstances, and what they would look or sound like.

Folklore of Nova Scotia

Author : Mary L Fraser
Publisher : Formac
ISBN 13 : 9780887800047
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folklore of Nova Scotia written by Mary L Fraser and published by Formac. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Fraser was a pioneer in researching and recording the folklore of Cape Breton and eastern Nova Scotia, and this book is an invaluable source for the legends of rural Nova Scotians. Scottish, Acadian and Mi'qmaq traditions are all included. Writes Ian Brodie in the introduction: "Folklore of Nova Scotia is a flawed, wonderful book -- or a wonderfully flawed book. As I read, I alternate between exasperation and delight: exasperation from its romanticism, delight from its embrace of the contemporary; exasperation from its prejudices, delight from its efforts at multiculturalism ... It is a documentary snapshot of a part of Nova Scotia's cultural history that was changing before the author's eyes."

As A' Bhraighe

Author : Allan the Ridge MacDonald
Publisher : Cape Breton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781897009062
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book As A' Bhraighe written by Allan the Ridge MacDonald and published by Cape Breton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the greatest Gaelic poets were from Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands. Those who emigrated to Nova Scotia in the 18th and 19th centuries were the living memory of clan history and tradition. Allan the Ridge MacDonald stands out as one poet who inherited and maintained an extraordinary wealth of vocabulary and a superior knowledge of clan and legendary history. In this first compilation and translation of the known Gaelic songs of Allan the Ridge in print, Effie Rankin gives all readers an insight into the life of the poet and the traditions that made him a highly regarded seanchaidh.

A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English

Author : Edith Fowke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487597177
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English by : Edith Fowke

Download or read book A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English written by Edith Fowke and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material culture; and within genres by ethnic groups: Anglophone and Celtic, Francophone, Indian and Inuit, and other cultural groups. The items include reference books, periodicals, articles, records, films, biographies of scholars and informants, and graduate theses. Each items is annotated through a coding that indicates whether it is academic or popular, its importance to the scholar, and whether it is suitable for young people. The introduction includes a brief survey of Canadian folklore studies, putting this work into academic and social perspective. The book covers all the important items and most minor items dealing with Canadian folklore published in English up to the end of 1979. It is concerned with legitimate Canadian folklore – whether transplanted from other countries and preserved here, or created here to reflect the culture of this country. It distinguishes between authentic folklore presented as collected and popular treatments in which the material has been rewritten by the authors. Intended primarily for scholars of folklore, international as well as Canadian, the book will also be of use to scholars in anthropology, cultural geography, oral history, and other branches of Canadian culture studies, as well as to librarians, teachers, and the general public.

Dictionary of Cape Breton English

Author : William John Davey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442669500
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Cape Breton English written by William John Davey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape Breton pork pie is filled with dates, not pork. The first regional dictionary devoted to the island’s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island’s rich vocabulary. Dictionary entries include supporting quotations culled from the editors’ extensive interviews with Cape Bretoners and considerable study of regional variation, as well as definitions, selected pronunciations, parts of speech, variant forms, related words, sources, and notes, giving the reader in-depth information on every aspect of Cape Breton culture. A substantial and long-awaited work of linguistic research that captures Cape Breton’s social, economic, and cultural life through the island’s language, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English can be read with interest by Backlanders, Bay byes, and those from away alike.

Folklore and the Sea

Author : Horace Palmer Beck
Publisher : Booksales
ISBN 13 : 9780785811190
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Folklore and the Sea written by Horace Palmer 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."

Ghost Stories of Canada

Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459720539
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Stories of Canada written by John Robert Colombo and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you thought it was safe to peek out from under the covers, along comes Ghost Stories of Canada to remind you that there are plenty of ghouls to watch out for in the True North. Ghost Stories of Canada is a collection of one hundred of the eeriest accounts of ghosts, poltergeists, and hauntings ever told in Canada. Included are descriptions of some the most spine-tingling mysteries of the past - the Mackenzie River Ghost, the Baldoon Mystery, the Wynyard Apparition, and the Great Amherst Mystery, to name a few. There are also first-hand narratives of the ghostly experiences of present-day men and women from all walks of life in all parts of the country. This is a book to sit awake with - especially on a dark and stormy night!

American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales [3 volumes]

Author : Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610695682
Total Pages : 1265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales [3 volumes] written by Christopher R. Fee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 1265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing popularity of science fiction and conspiracy theories, with mass media such as comic books, television, and films contributing to the retelling of old myths. This multi-volume encyclopedia will teach readers the central myths and legends that have formed American culture since its earliest years of settlement. Its entries provide a fascinating glimpse into the collective American imagination over the past 400 years through the stories that have shaped it. Organized alphabetically, the coverage includes Native American creation myths, "tall tales" like George Washington chopping down his father's cherry tree and the adventures of "King of the Wild Frontier" Davy Crockett, through to today's "urban myths." Each entry explains the myth or legend and its importance and provides detailed information about the people and events involved. Each entry also includes a short bibliography that will direct students or interested general readers toward other sources for further investigation. Special attention is paid to African American folklore, Asian American folklore, and the folklore of other traditions that are often overlooked or marginalized in other studies of the topic.

Many voices

Author : Carole Henderson Carpenter
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823333
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Many voices written by Carole Henderson Carpenter and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a historical overview of the development and role of Anglo-Canadian folklore studies in Canada and their relationship to similar research conducted with respect to French Canadians, minority groups within Canada, within the wider Canadian context, and at the international level.

The Power of a Tale

Author : Haya Bar-Itzhak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814342094
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Power of a Tale written by Haya Bar-Itzhak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and students interested in Jewish folklore and literature will appreciate this diverse collection as well as readers interested in Jewish and Israeli culture.

Canadian Folklore

Author : Edith Fowke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Folklore written by Edith Fowke and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Canadian folklore, Edith Fowke, a much-published scholar and anthologizer of Canadian folklore, argues that it is "the material that is handed on by tradition, either by word of mouth or by custom and practice...about which historians write." She examines in detail collectors, folktales, folk music, minor genres (speech, riddles, proverbs, childlore, beliefs), folk arts and material culture, folklife and customs, and various books about these subjects.