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Goldilocks on management : 27 revisionist fairy tales for serious managers
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ISBN: 0585054827 9780585054827 0814404812 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York : AMACOM,

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A fresh look at classic fairy takes reveals the basic truths and management principles on which the stories are based.

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ISBN: 0585115370 9780585115375 0919123848 9780919123847 Year: 1999 Publisher: Toronto Inner City Books

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Myths, legends, and folktales of America
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ISBN: 1280529660 9786610529667 019972895X 1429403748 9780199728954 9780195117844 0195117840 9781280529665 0195117832 9780195117837 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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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.

Uvajuq : the origin of death
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ISBN: 1283890658 1554880912 9781554880911 9781459713093 1459713095 0969078382 9780969078388 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge Bay, Nunavut : Kitikmeot Heritage Society,

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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.

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Legends --- Inuit --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore --- History.

Finding the center : the art of the Zuni storyteller
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ISBN: 058533966X 9780585339665 0803244398 9780803244399 0803294409 9780803294400 Year: 1999 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

Chaucer and the energy of creation : the design and the organization of the Canterbury tales
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ISBN: 0813021391 9780813021393 0813016797 Year: 1999 Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida,

Vignettes from the late Ming : a hsiao-pʻin anthology
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ISBN: 0295977337 029580226X 0295980680 Year: 1999 Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press,

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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.

Tales and Translation : The Grimm Tales from Pan-Germanic narratives to shared international fairytales
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ISBN: 9027216355 1556197896 9786612163876 1282163876 9027299757 9789027299758 9781556197895 9789027216359 Year: 1999 Volume: 30 Publisher: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,

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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.

American nightmares : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction
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ISBN: 087972790X 0879727896 029926873X 1283976188 9780299268732 9780879727895 9780879727901 9781283976183 Year: 1999 Publisher: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press : University of Wisconsin Press,

Contesting the Gothic : fiction, genre, and cultural conflict, 1764-1832
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ISBN: 1107116112 0511005180 1280153571 051111723X 0511150113 0511310013 0511484674 0511051468 9780511005183 051103623X 9780511036231 9780511150111 9780511051463 9780511117237 9780521640992 0521640997 9780511484674 0521640997 9780521024815 0521024811 9781107116115 9781280153570 9780511310010 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.

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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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