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The Folktale
Author | : Stith Thompson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520035379 |
As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.
The Star Husband
Author | : Jane Mobley |
Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780385142830 |
A retelling of an Indian legend in which a young maid's wish to have a sky-dweller for a husband comes true.
The Lost Husband
Author | : Katherine Center |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345507940 |
A tender and heartwarming novel that explores the trials of losing what matters most—and how there’s always more than we can imagine left to find—from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away and Things You Save in a Fire Now a major motion picture starring Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel • “A sweet tale about creating the family you need.”—People Dear Libby, It occurs to me that you and your two children have been living with your mother for—Dear Lord!—two whole years, and I’m writing to see if you'd like to be rescued. The letter comes out of the blue, and just in time for Libby Moran, who—after the sudden death of her husband, Danny—went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Before she can talk herself out of it, Libby is packing the minivan, grabbing the kids, and hitting the road. Life on Aunt Jean’s goat farm is both more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined. Beyond the animals and the strenuous work, there is quiet—deep, country quiet. But there is also a shaggy, gruff (though purportedly handsome, under all that hair) farm manager with a tragic home life, a formerly famous feed-store clerk who claims she can contact Danny “on the other side,” and the eccentric aunt Libby never really knew but who turns out to be exactly what she’s been looking for. And despite everything she’s lost, Libby soon realizes how much more she’s found. She hasn’t just traded one kind of crazy for another: She may actually have found the place to bring her little family—and herself—back to life.
How the Stars Fell Into the Sky
Author | : Jerrie Oughton |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395779385 |
A retelling of the Navaho legend that explains the patterns of the stars in the sky.
The Eternal Husband
Author | : Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2008-02-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0486465721 |
A rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. Powerful and accessible, it offers a captivating and revealing exploration of love, guilt, and hatred.
A Prelude to Biblical Folklore
Author | : Susan Niditch |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780252068836 |
Treating Old Testament stories as the product of an oral traditional world, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore sets biblical narrative in a broad cross-cultural context and reveals much about the richness and complexity of the ancient Israelite civilization that produced it. Using a unique combination of biblical scholarship and folklore methodology, Susan Niditch tracks stories of biblical characters who become heroes against the odds, either through trickery or through native wisdom, physical prowess, and the help of human or divine agents. In this volume, originally published as Underdogs and Tricksters, Niditch examines three cross-sections of the Old Testament in detail: stories in Genesis in which patriarchs pretend that their wives are really their sisters; the contrasting stories of two younger sons, the trickster Jacob and the earnest underdog Joseph; and the story of Esther as a paradigm of feminine wisdom pitted against unjust authority. Linking these Old Testament heroes to the legendary tricksters and underdogs of other cultures, Niditch shows how the Israelites' worldview and self-image are reflected in the way biblical authors tell their stories. Through a thoughtful analysis of style, content, narrative choices, and attitudes to issues of gender and political authority in biblical narrative, A Prelude to Biblical Folklore draws persuasive conclusions about the identity, location, and provenance of the stories' authors and their audiences.