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Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 0415204763
Pages : 558 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (152 downloads)
Download History of British Folklore PDF Full Free by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Release Date : 1968
ISBN 10 : 0710021763
Pages : 518 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (1 downloads)
Download The British Folklorists PDF Full Free by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dee Dee Chainey
Publisher : National Trust
Release Date : 2018-10-26
ISBN 10 : 9781911358565
Pages : 243 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (585 downloads)
Download A Treasury of British Folklore PDF Full Free by Dee Dee Chainey and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon’s feathers could not die? Or that green is an unlucky colour for wedding dresses? In Scotland it was thought you could ward off fairies by hanging your trousers from the foot of the bed, and in Gloucestershire you could cure warts by cutting notches in the bark of an ash tree. You’ve heard about King Arthur and St George, but how about the Green Man, a vegetative deity who is seen to symbolise death and rebirth? Or Black Shuck, the giant ghostly dog who was reputed to roam East Anglia? In this beautifully illustrated book, Dee Dee Chainey tells tales of mountains and rivers, pixies and fairy folk, and witches and alchemy. She explores how British culture has been shaped by the tales passed between generations, and by the land that we live on. As well as looking at the history of this subject, this book lists the places you can go to see folklore alive and well today. The Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival in Cambridgeshire or the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance in Staffordshire for example, or wassailing cider orchards in Somerset.
Author : Jason Marc Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9781317134657
Pages : 248 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (346 downloads)
Download Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction PDF Full Free by Jason Marc Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.
Author : Jabez Allies
Publisher :
Release Date : 1856
ISBN 10 : SRLF:A0009971805
Pages : 556 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download The British, Roman, and Saxon Antiquities and Folklore of Worcestershire PDF Full Free by Jabez Allies and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Hathaway
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2003-01-16
ISBN 10 : 9780190284152
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (841 downloads)
Download Race and the Modern Artist PDF Full Free by Heather Hathaway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minority writers as part of this movement. Considering works by writers ranging from B.A. Botkin, T.S. Eliot, Waldo Frank, and Jean Toomer to Pedro Pietri and Allen Ginsberg, these essays examine the disputed relationships between modernity, modernism, and American cultural diversity. In so doing, the collection as a whole adds an important new dimension to our understanding of twentieth-century literature.
Author : George Laurence Gomme
Publisher : DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
ISBN 10 : EAN:8596547118985
Pages : 322 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Folklore as an Historical Science PDF Full Free by George Laurence Gomme and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Folklore as an Historical Science" by George Laurence Gomme. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Sadhana Naithani
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006-05-21
ISBN 10 : 9780253112026
Pages : 345 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (12 downloads)
Download In Quest of Indian Folktales PDF Full Free by Sadhana Naithani and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] rare piece of scholarly detective work." -- Margaret Mills, Ohio State University In Quest of Indian Folktales publishes for the first time a collection of northern Indian folktales from the late 19th century. Reputedly the work of William Crooke, a well-known folklorist and British colonial official, the tales were actually collected, selected, and translated by a certain Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society, London. Since then, she has uncovered the identity of the mysterious Chaube and the details of his collaboration with the famous folklorist. In an extensive four-chapter introduction, Naithani describes Chaube's relationship to Crooke and the essential role he played in Crooke's work, as both a native informant and a trained scholar. By unearthing the fragmented story of Chaube's life, Naithani gives voice to a new identity of an Indian folklore scholar in colonial India. The publication of these tales and the discovery of Chaube's role in their collection reveal the complexity of the colonial intellectual world and problematize our own views of folklore in a postcolonial world.
Author : Sarah R. Wakefield
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 082046340X
Pages : 198 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (24 downloads)
Download Folklore in British Literature PDF Full Free by Sarah R. Wakefield and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women's writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus harmless. Because supernatural creatures change constantly, a name or story from folklore merely reinforces fears about empire, labor, and desire. To illustrate these fascinating rhetorical strategies, this book explores works by Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Sydney Owenson, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Anne Thackeray, and Jean Ingelow, pushing our understanding of allusions to folktales, fairy tales, and myths beyond «happily ever after.»
Author : Alexander Barrie
Publisher : The History Press
Release Date : 2005-11-24
ISBN 10 : 9780750954273
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (542 downloads)
Download Sutton Companion to the Folklore PDF Full Free by Alexander Barrie and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's rich and varied folklore, legends and beliefs provide an insight into the island's history. Every invader, refugee or settler has helped contribute some new element or twist to the complex pattern of our national heritage. This volume provides a comprehensive companion to legends and customs in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Author : Marshall Sahlins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1985
ISBN 10 : 0226733580
Pages : 204 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (267 downloads)
Download Islands of History PDF Full Free by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands—Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand—whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology.
Author : John David Allison Widdowson
Publisher :
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : IND:30000107640710
Pages : 482 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Bibliography of British Folklore: Text PDF Full Free by John David Allison Widdowson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-05-16
ISBN 10 : 9780226403366
Pages : 428 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (33 downloads)
Download The Myth of Disenchantment PDF Full Free by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines’ founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
Author : Robert Bevan-Jones
Publisher :
Release Date : 2016-10-31
ISBN 10 : 9781911188124
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (881 downloads)
Download The Ancient Yew PDF Full Free by Robert Bevan-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. This book tells the extraordinary story of the yew’s role in the landscape through the millennia, and makes a convincing case for the origins of many of the oldest trees, as markers of the holy places founded by Celtic saints in the early medieval ‘Dark Ages’. With wonderful photographic portraits of ancient yews and a gazetteer (with locations) of the oldest yew trees in Britain, the book brings together for the first time all the evidence about the dating, history, archaeology and cultural connections of the yew. Robert Bevan-Jones discusses its history, biology, the origins of its name, the yew berry and its toxicity, its distribution across Britain, means of dating examples, and their association with folklore, with churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells and as landscape markers. This third edition has an updated introduction with new photographs and corrections to the main text.
Author : Peter Claus
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-10-28
ISBN 10 : 9781000101225
Pages : 740 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (12 downloads)
Download South Asian Folklore PDF Full Free by Peter Claus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general public.
Author : Tamara Von Forslun
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2020-10-07
ISBN 10 : 9781984507259
Pages : 508 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (72 downloads)
Download Pagan and Witch Elders of the World PDF Full Free by Tamara Von Forslun and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pagan or Witch Elder is a leader who has lead by example, and teaches their wisdom to those that will listen, they have cleared the path for those to follow. We must remember and know who these Spiritual and Magical Warriors were and are, some who are still fighting in the world for our acceptance and understanding. This book is filled with hundreds of Elders (some known and some not well known) who stood tall and fought the establishment with compassion and strength, endurance and wisdom, courage, and determination, to share an ancient knowledge that has been awakened by them in the 21st century. I write this book so that our Pagan community remembers and knows who these brave Spiritual Earth Warriors were and are, and what they have given, sacrificed, and shared for the future of our world. This book is to honour all our Elders, so they are never forgotten and always honoured. MERRY WE MEET, MERRY WE PART, AND MERRY WE MEET AGAIN!
Author : Jennifer Westwood
Publisher :
Release Date : 1985
ISBN 10 : IND:39000005552703
Pages : 476 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Albion PDF Full Free by Jennifer Westwood and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
