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"Early Greek Myth" is a much-needed handbook for scholars and
others interested in the literary and artistic sources of archaic
Greek myths--and the only one of its kind available in English.
Timothy Gantz traces the development of each myth in narrative form
and summarizes the written and visual evidence in which the
specific details of the story appear.
Fairy Tale Architecture is a ground-breaking book, the first study
to bring architects in conversation with fairy tales in
breathtaking designs. Little Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Rapunzel,
Jack and the Beanstalk, The Snow Queen: these and more than 15
other stories designed by Bernheimer Architecture, Snohetta, Rural
Studio, LEVENBETTS, and LTL Architects and many other international
vanguards have created stunning works for this ground breaking
collection of architectural fairy tales. Story by story, Andrew
Bernheimer and Kate Bernheimer - a brother and sister team as in an
old fairy tale - have built the ultimate home for lovers of fiction
and design. Snow girls and spinning houses. Paper capes and
engineered hair braids. Resin beehives and infinite libraries. Here
are futuristic structures made from traditional stories, inspired
by everything from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen and The
Little Match Girl, to the Brothers Grimm's Rapunzel and The Juniper
Tree, to fairy tales by Jorge Luis Borges and Joy Williams and
those from China, Japan, Russia, Nigeria, and Mexico. A desire for
story and shelter counts as among our most ancient instincts, and
this dual desire continues to inspire our most imaginative
architects and authors today. Fairy Tale Architecture invites the
reader into a space of wonder, into a new form that will endure
ever after.
A paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology
of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes
nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974
edition.
Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to
weave tales from every corner of the world into compelling, even
spellbinding, narratives. His interest in comparative mythology
began in childhood, when the young Joe Campbell was taken to see
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at Madison Square Garden. He started
writing articles on Native American mythology in high school, and
the parallels between age-old myths and the mythic themes in
literature and dreams became a lifelong preoccupation. Campbell's
best-known work is "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (1949), which
became a "New York Times" paperback best-seller for Princeton in
1988 after Campbell's star turn on the Bill Moyers television
program "The Power of Myth."
During his early years as a professor of comparative religion
at Sarah Lawrence College, Campbell made the acquaintance of
Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, a kindred spirit who introduced him to
Paul and Mary Mellon, the founders of Bollingen Series. They chose
Campbell's "The Mythic Image" as the culmination of the series,
giving it the closing position--number one hundred. A lavishly
illustrated and beautifully produced study of the mythology of the
world's high civilizations, "The Mythic Image" received a
front-cover review in the "New York Times Book Review" upon
publication. Through the medium of visual art, the book explores
the relation of dreams to myth and demonstrates the important
differences between oriental and occidental interpretations of
dreams and life.
Dichos, or proverbs, offer a daily source of strength and
inspiration in Spanish-speaking households all over the world. In
this book about growing up in Manila with a Filipina grandmother,
Maria Paz Eleizegui Weir shares the centuries-old dichos she
learned from her abuelita: wisdom that is still useful today,
whether you live in Managua, Mazatlan, or Manhattan. In Lo que mi
abuela me dijo Weir tells the moving story of how the folk wisdom
she learned from her grandmother shaped her life. Arranged by
subjects, the dichos provide wisdom on topics such as childhood,
work, strife, and love. On friendship, for example, Si quieres el
perro, accepta las pulgas: If you like the dog, accept the fleas.
On manners, Los trapos sucios se lavan en casa: Dirty linen is
washed at home. With more than one hundred dichos, this collection
imparts timeless insight across generations.
With origins lost in the mists of time, these lively folk tales
reflect the wisdom (and eccentricities) of South Yorkshire's county
and people. Amongst the heroes and villains, giants and fairies,
knights and highwaymen, are well-known figures, such as Robin Hood
and the Dragon of Wantley, as well as lesser-known tales of
mysterious goings-on at Firbeck Hall and Roche Abbey. These
enchanting tales, many never before recorded in print, will bewitch
readers and storytellers, young and old alike.
The English may say, 'Where there's a will there's a way,' and the
Japanese, 'A concentrated mind pierces even a rock', but the
meaning is clearly the same; 'Too many boatmen sail the boat up the
hill' may be the same as the English, 'Too many cooks spoil the
broth', but the Japanese version has a delightful absurdity about
it which is illustrated in Kathryn Lamb's witty cartoon. These and
many more proverbs and sayings feature in Where There's a Will
There's a Way, which joins the family of six other bilingual
illustrated proverb books, devised in 1985 by Primrose Arnander and
the late Ashkhain Skipwith: three in Arabic, and one each in
Italian, French and Chinese. Each title in the series gives the
proverb in its original (and where the scripts are different,
provides the original script and its transliteration), the literal
translation and the English equivalent. They are not intended as
weighty works of scholarship, but rather as a source of
entertainment. They make the perfect gift, as well as being useful
to language students, whatever their native tongue. The cartoonist
Kathryn Lamb has brought her skills to all seven titles.
This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a
significant context for cinema's first years. The book takes up the
familiar notion of cinema as a "ghostly," "spectral" or "haunted"
medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the
history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical
research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the
skeletons of the danse macabre and the ghostly spaces of the mind,
it uncovers many lost and fascinating connections. The Modern
Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema locates film's spectral
affinities within a history stretching back to the beginning of
screen practice and forward to the digital era. In addition to
examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers
like Georges Melies and George Albert Smith, it also engages with
the representations of cinema's ghostly past in Guy Maddin's recent
online project Seances (2016). It is ideal for those interested in
the history of cinema, the study of the supernatural and the
pre-history of the horror film.
Along with Confederate flags, the men and women who recently
gathered before the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts carried signs
proclaiming "Heritage Not Hate." Theirs, they said, was an "open
and visible protest against those who attacked us, ours flags, our
ancestors, or our Heritage." How, Nicole Maurantonio wondered, did
"not hate" square with a "heritage" grounded in slavery? How do
so-called neo-Confederates distance themselves from the actions and
beliefs of white supremacists while clinging to the very symbols
and narratives that tether the Confederacy to the history of racism
and oppression in America? The answer, Maurantonio discovers, is
bound up in the myth of Confederate exceptionalism-a myth whose
components, proponents, and meaning this timely and provocative
book exploresThe narrative of Confederate exceptionalism, in this
analysis, updates two uniquely American mythologies-the Lost Cause
and American exceptionalism-blending their elements with discourses
of racial neoliberalism to create a seeming separation between the
Confederacy and racist systems. Incorporating several methods and
drawing from a range of sources-including ethnographic
observations, interviews, and archival documents-Maurantonio
examines the various people, objects, and rituals that contribute
to this cultural balancing act. Her investigation takes in
"official" modes of remembering the Confederacy, such as the
monuments and building names that drive the discussion today, but
it also pays attention to the more mundane and often subtle ways in
which the Confederacy is recalled. Linking the different modes of
commemoration, her work bridges the distance that believers in
Confederate exceptionalism maintain; while situated in history from
the Civil War through the civil rights era, the book brings
much-needed clarity to the constitution, persistence, and
significance of this divisive myth in the context of our time.
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Midlothian Folk Tales
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Lea Taylor; Illustrated by Sylvia Troon; Foreword by Donald Smith
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Storyteller Lea Taylor brings together stories from the rugged
coastlines, rushing rivers, uplands and sweeping valleys of
Midlothian. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet kings and
queens, saints and sinners, witches and wizards, ghosts and giants,
fools and tricksters - all as mysterious and powerful as the
landscape they inhabit. Retold in an engaging style, and richly
illustrated with unique line drawings, these humorous, clever and
enchanting folk tales are sure to be enjoyed and shared time and
again.
Fight your fears, gain confidence and unlock your future using the
power of fairy tales We first engage with fairy tales in childhood
and they never leave us. From the "rescuer" Prince Charming to the
scary, shapeshifting wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, the
characters, symbolism and narratives in these stories are embedded
deep within our psyches. This book offers a whole host of tips,
creative activities and inspiring illustrations to help you draw on
the latent power of fairy tales and apply their magic to your
everyday life. These include storyboarding your own fairy tale to
boost your imagination, devising a quest to build energy and
confidence, and identifying your inner hero to improve your problem
solving.
From 2014 to 2018, people all over the world will be commemorating
the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. They
will not only be honouring those who lost their lives on the
battlefield between 1914 and 1918, they will also be remembering
everyone who played a part in, or lived through, those troubled
times. First World War Folk Tales is a very special collection of
legends and folk tales from the First World War era. This special
centenary collection shows how elements of truth can become legend,
how people often attempt to explain the strange and the mysterious
through stories and tales, and how storytelling can ease the pain
and burden of war.
An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to
Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and
historians of ideas, but accessible also to the cultivated reader.
Even if one does not always agree with the author's interpretation,
one cannot but admire her vast and precise learning, her splendid
translations and exegesis of so many, and so different, Sanskrit
texts, and her uninhibited, brilliant, and witty prose.--Mircea
Eliade, University of Chicago
This is . . . a book which is as rich in detail as the carvings of
the great Hindu temples. It shares with them a delight in the
interplay of myth and mundane experience, and above all an empathy
with the Hindu preoccupation with the meaning of human existence in
all its complexity.--G. M. Carstairs, Times Literary Supplement
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five
medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic,
featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and
journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium
of short medieval Japanese fiction in English, Monsters, Animals,
and Other Worlds illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist,
and visual culture largely unknown today outside of Japan. These
stories, called otogizoshi, or Muromachi tales (named after the
Muromachi period, 1337 to 1573), date from approximately the
fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Often richly illustrated
in a painted-scroll format, these vernacular stories frequently
express Buddhist beliefs and provide the practical knowledge and
moral education required to navigate medieval Japanese society. The
otogizoshi represent a major turning point in the history of
Japanese literature. They bring together many earlier types of
narrative-court tales, military accounts, anecdotes, and stories
about the divine origins of shrines and temples--joining book
genres with parlor arts and the culture of itinerant storytellers
and performers. The works presented here are organized into three
thematically overlapping sections titled, "Monsters, Warriors, and
Journeys to Other Worlds," "Buddhist Tales," and "Interspecies
Affairs." Each translation is prefaced by a short introduction, and
the book features images from the original scroll paintings,
illustrated manuscripts, and printed books.
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