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The fairy tale : the magic mirror of the imagination
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ISBN: 1138153141 0203820886 1136753427 9780203820889 1299696767 9781299696761 0415938910 9780415938914 9781136753428 9781136753374 9781136753411 9781138153141 1136753419 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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One of the best known and enduring genres, the fairy fales origins extend back to the preliterate oral societies of the ancient world. This books surveys its history and traces its evolution into the form we recognized today. Jones Builds on the work of folklorist and critics to provide the student with a stunning, lucid overview of the genre and a solid understanding of its structure.

God on the hill : temple poems from Tirupati
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ISBN: 1280704527 0198040326 1423735013 9781423735014 0195182839 0195182847 0197739369 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. This book offers translations of 150 of Annamaya's poems, which are readable as poetry in their own right.

Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness
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ISBN: 1280470771 9786610470778 0198028466 1282384074 9786612384073 0195349377 1602567697 9780198028468 6610470774 9780195121995 0195121996 0195144112 9781280470776 9780195144116 0195144112 0197726283 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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By recapturing the nineteenth-century worlds of the super- and sub-human, and recontextualizing a forgotton obsession - this text enables twentieth-century readers to recover a legacy too precious to be lost.

Cycles of influence : fiction, folktale, theory
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ISBN: 0814339093 9780814339091 0814329497 9780814329498 Year: 2003 Publisher: Detroit : ©2003 Wayne State University Press,


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Oral tradition in african literature
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ISBN: 9783703684 9789783703681 9789783603592 9783603590 Year: 2015 Publisher: Nigeria, West Africa : African Library of Critical Writing,

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This study of oral tradition in African literature is borne from the awareness that African verbal arts still survive in works of discerning writers and in the conscious exploration of its tropes, perspectives, philosophy and consciousness, its complementary realism, and ontology, for the delineation of authentic African response to memory, history and other possible comparisons with modern existence such as witnessed in recent developments of the African novel. In this series we have strived to adopt innovative and multilayered perspectives on orality or indigeneity and its manifestations on contemporary African and new literatures. These studies use multi-faceted theories of orality which discuss and deconstruct notions of history, truth-claims and identity-making, not excluding gender and genealogy (cultural and biological) studies in African contexts.


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W swiecie ludowych opowiadan : teksty, gatunki, intencje narracyjne
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ISBN: 8322909691 Year: 1993 Volume: 1551 Publisher: Wroclaw Uniwersytet Wroclawski

Folkvisans upptäckare : Receptionsstudier fraan Montaigne och Schefferus till Herder
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ISBN: 9155415903 9789155415907 Year: 1984 Volume: vol 14 Publisher: Stockholm Almqvist & Wiksell

Textualization of Oral Epics
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ISBN: 3110169282 3110825848 9783110169287 Year: 2011 Volume: 128 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton,


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Make we merry more and less : an anthology of medieval English popular literature
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ISBN: 1783747129 1783747110 1783747102 Year: 2019 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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Conceived as a companion volume to the well-received Simple Forms: Essays on Medieval English Popular Literature(2015), Make We Merry More and Less is a comprehensive anthology of popular medieval literature from the twelfth century onwards. Uniquely, the book is divided by genre, allowing readers to make connections between texts usually presented individually. This anthology offers a fruitful exploration of the boundary between literary and popular culture, and showcases an impressive breadth of literature, including songs, drama, and ballads. Familiar texts such as the visions of Margery Kempe and the Paston family letters are featured alongside lesser-known works, often oral. This striking diversity extends to the language: the anthology includes Scottish literature and original translations of Latin and French texts. The illuminating introduction offers essential information that will enhance the reader’s enjoyment of the chosen texts. Each of the chapters is accompanied by a clear summary explaining the particular delights of the literature selected and the rationale behind the choices made. An invaluable resource to gain an in-depth understanding of the culture of the period, this is essential reading for any student or scholar of medieval English literature, and for anyone interested in folklore or popular material of the time.

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