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A fresh look at classic fairy takes reveals the basic truths and management principles on which the stories are based.
Management. --- Fairy tales. --- Fairy tales --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization
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Fairy tales --- Redemption in literature --- Women --- Psychoanalysis and fairy tales --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Fairy tales and psychoanalysis --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- History and criticism
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This marvellous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States-from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and Uncle Sam, Paul Revere and Billy the Kid, and even the Iroquois Flying Head and Elvis. In the book's section on dogmas and icons, for instance, Leeming and Page discuss the American melting pot, the notion of manifest destiny, and the imposing historical and literary figure of Henry Adams. And under Heroes and Heroines, they have assembled everyone from "Honest Abe" Lincoln and George "I Cannot Tell a Lie" Washington to Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Martin Luther King, Jr. For every myth or hero rendered here, the editors include an informative yet readable excerpt, often the definitive account of the story in question.; Taken as a whole, Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America reveals how waves of immigrants, encountering this strange land for the first time, adapted their religions, beliefs, and folklore to help make sense of a new and astounding place. Covering Johnny Appleseed and Stagolee as well as Paul Bunyan and Moby Dick, this wonderful anthology illuminates our nation's myth-making, enriching our idea of what it means to be American.
Tales --- Folklore --- Ethnic folklore --- Ethnic groups --- Immigrant folklore --- Folk-lore, American
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The story of Uvajuq is rooted in a time when people and animals lived in such harmony and unity that they could speak to each other.
Legends --- Inuit --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore --- History.
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Zuni poetry --- Zuni Indians --- Folklore --- Tales --- Languages & Literatures --- Native American & Hyperborean Languages --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Performance of folklore --- Oral communication --- Storytelling --- Zuni literature --- Performance. --- Translations into English --- Performance
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Tales, Medieval --- Storytelling in literature. --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature --- Storytelling in literature --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Medieval tales --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Technique.
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This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.
S16/0440 --- S16/0418 --- Chinese essays --- -Chinese literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional novels: Ming: studies, texts and translations --- Translations into English --- Translations into English. --- -China: Literature and theatrical art--Traditional tales and short stories (incl. Zhanguoce; Liaozhai) essays, letters, prose: studies --- Chinese literature --- Chinese literature. --- Anthologies: general
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Dealing with the most translated work of German literature, the Tales of the brothers Grimm (1812-1815), this book discusses their history, notably in relation to Denmark and subsequently other nations from 1816 to 1986. The Danish intelligentsia responded enthusiastically to the tales and some were immediately translated into Danish by a nobleman and by the foremost Romantic poet. Their renditions remained in print for a century and embued the tales with high prestige. This book discusses translators, approaches, and other parameters such as copyright, and changes in target audiences.
#KVHA:Vertaalgeschiedenis --- Theory of literary translation --- Grimm [Brothers] --- Folk literature, German --- Children's stories, German --- Fairy tales --- German language --- Translations into Danish --- History and criticism --- Translating into Danish --- Kinder- und Hausmärchen --- Translations --- History and criticism. --- Translating into Danish. --- Children's stories, German -- Translations into Danish -- History and criticism. --- Fairy tales -- Germany -- History and criticism. --- Folk literature, German -- History and criticism. --- Folk literature, German -- Translations into Danish -- History and criticism. --- German language -- Translating into Danish. --- Kinder and Hausmarchen -- Translations -- History and criticism. --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Ashkenazic German language --- Hochdeutsch --- Judaeo-German language (German) --- Judendeutsch language --- Judeo-German language (German) --- Jüdisch-Deutsch language --- Jüdischdeutsch language --- Germanic languages --- German children's stories --- German fiction --- German folk literature --- German literature --- Folk literature, German - Translations into Danish - History and criticism --- Children's stories, German - Translations into Danish - History and criticism --- Fairy tales - Germany - History and criticism --- Folk literature, German - History and criticism --- German language - Translating into Danish
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American fiction --- Haunted houses in literature. --- Popular literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Ghost stories, American --- Horror tales, American --- Nightmares in literature. --- Home in literature. --- American ghost stories --- History and criticism. --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- MAISONS HANTEES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE POPULAIRE --- CARACTERISTIQUES NATIONALES --- LITTERATURE D'EPOUVANTE AMERICAINE --- CAUCHEMARS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ETATS-UNIS --- AMERICAINS --- DANS LA LITTERATURE
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James Watt's historically grounded account of Gothic fiction, first published in 1999, takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of fiction, characterized at times by antagonistic relations between various writers or works. Central to his argument about these works' writing and reception is a nuanced understanding of their political import: Walpole's attempt to forge an aristocratic identity, the loyalist affiliations of many neglected works of the 1790s, a reconsideration of the subversive reputation of The Monk, and the ways in which Radcliffean romance proved congenial to conservative critics. Watt concludes by looking ahead to the fluctuating critical status of Scott and the Gothic, and examines the process by which the Gothic came to be defined as a monolithic tradition, in a way that continues to exert a powerful hold.
English fiction --- Horror tales, English --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Politics and culture --- Romanticism --- Literary form. --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects --- 82-392 --- 82-34 --- 820 "17" --- 820-34 --- -English fiction --- -Gothic revival (Literature) --- -Horror tales, English --- -Romanticism --- -Literary form --- -Form, Literary --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- English horror tales --- 820 "17" Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Engelse literatuur--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Literatuur. Gotische roman(ce) --- Sprookje. Legende. Mythe --- Engelse literatuur: sprookje; legende; mythe --- -History and criticism --- History and criticism --- History --- -History --- -82-392 --- -English literature --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- 820-34 Engelse literatuur: sprookje; legende; mythe --- 82-34 Sprookje. Legende. Mythe --- -Social aspects --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English --- Literary form --- English gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Arts and Humanities --- 18th century --- Horror tales [English ] --- 19th century --- Great Britain --- English literature --- -Political aspects
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