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  1. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 1: The Middle Ages
    Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre... more

     

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.

    Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today.

    The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards.

    Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies."

     
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  2. Waltzing Through Europe : Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth-Century
    Contributor: Bakka, Egil (Publisher); Buckland, Theresa Jill (Publisher); Saarikoski, Helena (Publisher); Von Bibra Wharton, Anne (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together... more

     

    "From ‘folk devils’ to ballroom dancers, Waltzing Through Europe explores the changing reception of fashionable couple dances in Europe from the eighteenth century onwards. A refreshing intervention in dance studies, this book brings together elements of historiography, cultural memory, folklore, and dance across comparatively narrow but markedly heterogeneous localities. Rooted in investigations of often newly discovered primary sources, the essays afford many opportunities to compare sociocultural and political reactions to the arrival and practice of popular rotating couple dances, such as the Waltz and the Polka. Leading contributors provide a transnational and affective lens onto strikingly diverse topics, ranging from the evolution of romantic couple dances in Croatia, and Strauss’s visits to Hamburg and Altona in the 1830s, to dance as a tool of cultural preservation and expression in twentieth-century Finland. Waltzing Through Europe creates openings for fresh collaborations in dance historiography and cultural history across fields and genres. It is essential reading for researchers of dance in central and northern Europe, while also appealing to the general reader who wants to learn more about the vibrant histories of these familiar dance forms.

     

    Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and identity within) the physical and cultural space they inhabit.

     

    This book is a rich and multifaceted collection of twenty-eight chapters that use varied lenses to examine the discourses that shape people’s lives. The contributors are themselves from many backgrounds – different academic disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, diverse professional practices and a range of countries and cultures. They represent a broad spectrum of age, status and outlook, and variously apply their research methods – but share a common interest in people, their lives, thoughts and actions. Gathering such eclectic experiences as those of student-teachers in Kenya, a released prisoner in Denmark, academics in Colombia, a group of migrants learning English, and gambling addiction support-workers in Italy, alongside more mainstream educational themes, the book presents a fascinating array of insights.

     

    Discourses We Live By will be essential reading for adult educators and practitioners, those involved with educational and professional practice, narrative researchers, and many sociologists. It will appeal to all who want to know how narratives shape the way we live and the way we talk about our lives."

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Bakka, Egil (Publisher); Buckland, Theresa Jill (Publisher); Saarikoski, Helena (Publisher); Von Bibra Wharton, Anne (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Dance; Social & cultural history; Europe; Modern period, c 1500 onwards
    Other subjects: dance studies; historiography; cultural memory; folklore; dance; Waltz; Polka
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (494 p.)
  3. Riddles: Perspectives on the use, function and change in a folklore genre
    Author: Kaivola-Bregenhøj, Annikki
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions. It introduces the... more

     

    Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions. It introduces the reader to different riddling situations and the many functions of riddles, wich vary from education to teasing, and from defusing a heated situation to entertainment. In addition to providing a survey of international riddle scholarship, the book has a comprehensive bibliography with suggestions for further reading.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9517465769; 9789522228215
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    Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: popular tradition; folkloristics; folklore; riddles; Finland; Metaphor; Semantics
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (186 p.)
  4. Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat
    Contributor: Ruohonen, Kaisa (Publisher); Uimonen, Heikki (Publisher); Kytö, Meri (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Tampere University Press, Tampere

    Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat (Transforming Finnish Soundscapes, eds Heikki Uimonen, Meri Kytö & Kaisa Ruohonen) is a collection of research essays and texts that study the sonic environment and how it is experienced. Soundscapes related to... more

     

    Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat (Transforming Finnish Soundscapes, eds Heikki Uimonen, Meri Kytö & Kaisa Ruohonen) is a collection of research essays and texts that study the sonic environment and how it is experienced. Soundscapes related to time, place and the everyday shape our perception of the present and the past. Sounds can be pleasant and beautiful, pacing the day or year, annoying, boring and everything in between. The theme of transforming soundscapes combines the research essays in the publication. The essays draw from various disciplines and methodologies: media studies, anthropological field work and sensory observation, textual analysis and close reading, folkloristics, archeoacoustics and music studies.

     

    In turn, the texts gathered via a writing competition show how sounds can be listened to both analytically and aesthetically, connecting them to local, national and transnational cultures and histories pondering what sounds mean to the listeners and how they influence the soundscape they live in. The study is a revisit to the One Hundred Finnish Soundscapes project (2006). Muuttuvat suomalaiset äänimaisemat (toim. Heikki Uimonen, Meri Kytö & Kaisa Ruohonen) kokoaa yhteen ympäristön ääniä ja äänimaisemia tarkastelevia tieteellisiä artikkeleita sekä äänen kokemisesta kertovia tekstejä. Aikaan, paikkaan, arkeen ja juhlaan liittyvä äänimaisema muovaa nykypäiväämme ja rakentaa menneisyyttämme. Äänet ovat miellyttäviä ja kauniita, vuorokautta ja vuodenkiertoa rytmittäviä, häiritseviä, tylsiä ja sekä kaikkea näiden väliltä. Muuttuvien äänimaisemien tematiikka yhdistää myös kirjan tutkimusartikkeleita. Tutkimuksellisesti ne nojaavat eri tieteentraditioihin ja menetelmiin: mediatutkimukseen ja -analyysiin, antropologiseen kenttätallennukseen ja aistinvaraiseen havainnointiin, tekstianalyysiin ja lähilukuun, folkloristiikkaan, arkeoakustiikkaan ja musiikintutkimukseen.

     

    Kirjoituskilpailussa kerätyt tekstit puolestaan osoittavat, kuinka ääniä on mahdollista kuunnella analyyttisesti ja esteettisesti, asettaa ne osaksi alueellista, paikallista, valtakunnallista tai ylirajaista kulttuurihistoriallista tarkastelua ja pohtia, mitä ääni kuuntelijalleen merkitsee ja miten hän äänimaisemaansa vaikuttaa. Tutkimus on jatkoa Sata suomalaista äänimaisemaa -hankkeelle (2006).

     
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    Contributor: Ruohonen, Kaisa (Publisher); Uimonen, Heikki (Publisher); Kytö, Meri (Publisher)
    Language: Finnish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Media studies
    Other subjects: field recording; journalism; change; memory; folklore; libraries; auditory culture; radio; archeoacoustics; soundscape
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (315 p.)
  5. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 3: The American Middle Ages
    Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame... more

     

    This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages hinges upon two figures influenced by the juggler: Henry Adams, scion of Presidents and distinguished cultural historian whose works contributed to the rise of medievalism in America during the Gilded Age, and Ralph Adams Cram, the architect whose vision of Gothic accounts directly or indirectly for the campuses of West Point, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, Notre Dame, and many other universities across America. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.

     
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  6. How to Read a Folktale : The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar
    Author: Haring, Lee; Turin, Mark
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil... more

     

    How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the tale is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people were experiencing European contact for the first time, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Through Ibonia, Lee Haring expertly helps readers to understand the very nature of folktales. His definitive translation, originally published in 1994, has now been fully revised to emphasize its poetic qualities, while his new introduction and detailed notes give insight into the fascinating imagination and symbols of the Malagasy. Haring’s research connects this exotic narrative with fundamental questions not only of anthropology but also of literary criticism.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    Subjects: Poetry; Folklore, myths & legends; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: ibonia; madagascar; literary criticism; folktale; folklore; malagasy people; world oral literature project; anthropology; Merina people; Old Man (song)
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (163 p.)
  7. Why Do We Quote? : The Culture and History of Quotation
    Author: Finnegan, Ruth
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the... more

     

    Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near. Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan’s fascinating study sets our present conventions into cross-cultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing definitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as 'imitation', 'allusion', 'authorship', 'originality' and 'plagiarism'.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Language: reference & general; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: cultural anthropology; imitation; oral traditions; quotation; cultural history; folklore; quotation marks; english; plagiarism; language; quoting; sociolinguistics; originality; oral literature; Erasmus; Latin
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (343 p.)
  8. Myth and Mentality: Studies in Folklore and Popular Thought
    Contributor: Siikala, Anna-Leena (Publisher)
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki, Finland

    "The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the... more

     

    "The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher. These archive materials were not only collected by scholars, but also by the ordinary rural populace interested in their own traditions, by performers and their audiences. With its myriad voices, this body of source material thus provides new avenues for the researcher seeking to penetrate popular thought. What does oral tradition tell us about the way its performers think and feel? What sorts of beliefs and ideas are transmitted in traditional songs and narratives? Perspectives from the study of mentalities and cultural cognition research provide a framework for investigating these issues. This collection of articles works from the premise that the cultural models which shape mentalities give rise to manifest expressions of culture, including folklore. These models also become embedded in the representations appearing in folklore, and are handed down from one generation to the next. The topics of the book cover age-old myths and world views, concepts of witchcraft and the Devil stretching back to the Middle Ages, and the values and collective emotions of Finnish and Hungarian agrarian communities.

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    Contributor: Siikala, Anna-Leena (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522228499; 9789522228482
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    Subjects: Finland; Swedish; Poetry; Religion: general; Folklore, myths & legends; Sociology: customs & traditions
    Other subjects: mentality history; mythology; mentality; folklore; myths; folk poetry; Finland; Finnish paganism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (317 p.)
  9. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism
    Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre... more

     

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.

    Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today.

    The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity is a rich case study for the reception of the Middle Ages in modernity. Spanning centuries and continents, the medieval period is understood through the lens of its (post)modern reception in Europe and America. Profound connections between the verbal and the visual are illustrated by a rich trove of images, including book illustrations, stained glass, postage stamps, architecture, and Christmas cards.

    Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies."

     
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  10. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur
    Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles... more

     

    Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. She translated over 70 books from English, French and Russian into German, notably the novels of Upton Sinclair, which she turned into best-sellers in Germany; produced a series of detective novels under a pseudonym; wrote seven engaging and thought-provoking novels of her own, six of which were translated into English; contributed countless insightful short stories and articles to newspapers and magazines; and, having become a committed socialist, achieved international renown in the 1920s with her Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children, which were widely translated including into Chinese and Japanese. Because of her fervent and outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she and her life-long Jewish partner, Stefan Klein, had to flee first Germany, where they had settled, and then, in 1938, her native Austria. They found refuge in England, where Zur Mühlen died, forgotten and virtually penniless, in 1951. This new, expanded edition contains: Zur Mühlen’s autobiographical memoir, The End and the Beginning; The editor’s detailed notes on the persons and events mentioned in the autobiography; A selection of Zur Mühlen’s short stories and two fairy tales; A synopsis of Zur Mühlen’s untranslated novel Our Daughters the Nazi Girls; An essay by the Editor on Zur Mühlen’s life and work; A bibliography of Zur Mühlen’s novels in English translation; A portfolio of selected illustrations of her work by George Grosz and Heinrich Vogeler; A free online supplement with additional original material

     
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  11. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
    Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    The ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War. Forged by influential individuals and... more

     

    The ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War. Forged by influential individuals and impacting on global events including the Japanese Peace Treaty, the Korean War and the Suez Crisis, the ANZUS Alliance was a crucial factor in the seismic changes that took place in the second half of the twentieth century. In this compact and accessible study Andrew Kelly lays out the tensions that underpinned the formation of the Alliance, as each power sought to extract maximum influence and prestige, and examines how the ANZUS powers worked together (or failed to do so) when responding to massive global events including the rise of the People’s Republic of China and the waning of the British Empire. Kelly comprehensively explores the reasons why Australia and New Zealand disagreed so regularly about mutual security issues, how US global leadership shaped ANZUS, and the British impact on the trilateral relationship, and outlines how these issues set the foundations for today’s world order. ANZUS and the Early Cold War is essential reading for historians of Australian, New Zealand and American international relations in the twentieth century. Its concise format and readable style will also appeal to general readers interested in the history and foreign policies of these nations, and to anyone who wants to know more about the individual and geopolitical tensions that beset any major alliance.

     
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  12. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity : Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence
    Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M.
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre... more

     

    "This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.

    Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this concluding volume, Ziolkowski explores the popularity of The Juggler of Notre Dame from the 1930s through the Second World War, especially in the Allied Resistance. Its popularity in the United States was subsequently maintained by figures as diverse as Tony Curtis and W. H. Auden, and although recently the story and medievalism have lost ground, the future of both holds promise.

    Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies."

     
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  13. The impact of the Arabian Nights on modern Arabic poetry
    Author: Ḫūrī, Ǧurais Naʿīm
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
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    3K 67658
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    Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft der Universität, Bibliothek
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  14. Llegenda i mite
    Contributor: Sunyer, Magí (Herausgeber, Verfasser); Veny-Mesquida, Joan Ramon (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Edition Reichenberger, Kassel

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    Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Philologie, Romanisches Seminar, Bibliothek
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    Ka 75.02
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    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Sunyer, Magí (Herausgeber, Verfasser); Veny-Mesquida, Joan Ramon (Herausgeber)
    Language: Catalan
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783967280289; 3967280284
    Other identifier:
    9783967280289
    DDC Categories: 440
    Series: Estudis catalans ; 10
    Subjects: Sage; Rezeption; Katalanisch; Legende; Literatur; Mythos
    Other subjects: renacimiento; folklore; exilio; humor; mitología; leyenda; simulacro social; modernismo; historia; memoria
    Scope: VI, 217 Seiten, 21 cm x 15 cm, 235 g
  15. Llegenda i mite
    Contributor: Sunyer, Magí (Herausgeber); Veny-Mesquida, Joan R. (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Edition Reichenberger, Kassel

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Sunyer, Magí (Herausgeber); Veny-Mesquida, Joan R. (Herausgeber)
    Language: Catalan
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783967280289; 3967280284
    Other identifier:
    9783967280289
    Series: Estudis catalans ; 10
    Subjects: Legende; Sage; Mythos; Rezeption; Katalanisch; Literatur
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Paperback / softback; renacimiento; folklore; exilio; humor; mitología; leyenda; simulacro social; modernismo; historia; memoria; (VLB-WN)1566: Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Romanische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: VI, 217 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm, 235 g
  16. Why Do We Quote?: The Culture and History of Quotation
    Author: Finnegan, Ruth H.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers, [s.l.]

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  17. Classical Telugu Poetry
    Contributor: Shulman, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. Nannaya -- 2. Nannĕcoḍa -- 3. Pālkuriki Somanātha -- 4. Tikkana -- 5. Mañcana -- 6. Ĕṟṟāpragaḍa -- 7. Nācana Somanātha -- 8. Śrīnātha -- 9. Bammĕra Potana --... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. Nannaya -- 2. Nannĕcoḍa -- 3. Pālkuriki Somanātha -- 4. Tikkana -- 5. Mañcana -- 6. Ĕṟṟāpragaḍa -- 7. Nācana Somanātha -- 8. Śrīnātha -- 9. Bammĕra Potana -- 10. Annamayya -- 11. Allasāni Pĕddana -- 12. Kṛṣṇadevarāya -- 13. Nandi Timmana -- 14. Dhūrjaṭi -- 15. Tĕnāli Rāmakṛṣṇa -- 16. Nūtana-kavi Sūranna -- 17. Piṅgaḷi Sūranna -- 18. Appakavi -- 19. Kṣetrayya -- 20. Śatakas -- 21. Cāṭu Verses -- 22. Śāhāji -- 23. Samukhamu Veṅkaṭakṛṣṇappa Nāyaka -- 24. Muddupaḷani -- 25. Tyāgarāja -- Bibliography -- Index The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume, Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries, providing an authoritative volume overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. An informative, engaging introduction fleshes out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in relation to significant literary themes and historical developments and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical literature and poetry of Sanskrit

     
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  18. Classical Telugu Poetry
    An Anthology
    Contributor: Shulman, David (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2002]; ©2002
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South... more

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    This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the first anthology of classical Telugu poetry in English, gives an overview of one of the world's most creative poetic traditions. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological, religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries. The beautifully translated selections are often dramatic and unexpected in tone and effect, and sometimes highly personal. The authors have provided an informative, engaging introduction, fleshing out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in relation to significant literary themes and historical developments, and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical literature and poetry of Sanskrit

     
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    Series: Voices from Asia ; 13
    Subjects: Telugu poetry; Telugu poetry; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors)
    Other subjects: asian literature; brahmin; courtesan songs; courtesan; divine; folk tale; folklore; hindi literature; hinduism; literature; mahabharata; mancana; marriage; myth; nannaya; nannecoda; naraka; nonfiction; poetry; religious poetry; sanskrit; south asian literature; sukumara; telugu; tikkana; udanka and the snakes; vena; visnu the dwarf; widow; world literature
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  19. Polyeideia
    The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition
    Author: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin
    Published: [2002]; ©2003
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    This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek... more

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    This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other genres, especially to such collections as Horace's Epodes. The poems are especially significant as examples of cultural memory since they are composed both as an act of commemorating earlier poetry and as a manipulation of traditional features of iambic poetry to refashion the iambic genre. This book fills a significant gap by providing the first complete translation of several of these fragmentary poems in English, along with line-by-line commentary, notes, and literary analysis.The structure of the book is thematic, with chapters focusing on such topics as poetic voice, fable, ethical criticism, and statuary. Each chapter consists of an introduction, text and selected critical apparatus, translation, and comprehensive thematic discussion. Acosta-Hughes focuses especially on Callimachus' manipulation of traditional features of archaic iambic poetry such as persona loquens, ethical and critical message, and eristic dialogue. He also includes a detailed analysis of the Alexandrian poet's artistic relationship with the earlier iambic poets Archilochus and Hipponax.Polyeideia will interest not only readers of Greek and Hellenistic poetry but also readers of Roman satire and invective verse, as well as those intrigued by the processes of memorializing and fashioning poetic culture

     
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    Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society ; 35
    Subjects: Iambic poetry, Greek; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
    Other subjects: alexandria; archilochus; biography; callimachus; classicism; eristic dialogue; ethics; fable; folklore; fragmentary poems; greece; greek poetry; greek; hellenism; hipponax; iam; iambic genre; iambic poetry; iambic poets; invective verse; literary criticism; literature; myth; persona loquens; poetic form; poetic voice; poetry; satire; social commentary; third century
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  20. Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems
    History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry
    Author: Limón, José E.
    Published: [1992]; ©1992
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    Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He... more

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    Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of literary influence but takes Bloom into the socio-political realm. Limón shows how Chicano poetry is nourished by the oral tradition of the Mexican corrido, or master ballad, which was a vital part of artistic and political life along the Mexican-U.S. border from 1890 to 1930.Limón's use of Bloom, as well as of Marxist critics Raymond Williams and Fredric Jameson, brings Chicano literature into the arena of contemporary literary theory. By focusing on an important but little-studied poetic tradition, his book challenges our ideas of the American canon and extends the reach of Hispanists and folklorists as well

     
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  21. Erec and Enide
    Author: de Troyes, Chrétien
    Published: [1992]; ©1992
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an... more

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    In this new verse translation of one of the great works of French literature, Dorothy Gilbert captures the vivacity, wit, and grace of the first known Arthurian romance. Erec and Enide is the story of the quest and coming of age of a young knight, an illustrious member of Arthur's court, who must learn to balance the demands of a masculine public life—tests of courage, skill, adaptability, and mature judgment—with the equally urgent demands of the private world of love and marriage. We see his wife, Enide, develop as an exemplar of chivalry in the female, not as an Amazon, but as a brave, resolute, and wise woman. Composed ca. 1170, Erec and Enide masterfully combines elements of Celtic legend, classical and ecclesiastical learning, and French medieval culture and ideals.In choosing to write in rhymed octosyllabic couplets–Chrétien's prosodic pattern–Dorothy Gilbert has tried to reproduce what so often gets lost in prose or free verse translations: the precise and delicate meter; the rhyme, with its rich possibilities for emphasis, nuance, puns and jokes; and the "mantic power" implicit in proper names. The result will enable the scholar who cannot read Old French, the student of literature, and the general reader to gain a more sensitive and immediate understanding of the form and spirit of Chrétien's poetry, and to appreciate the more Chrétien's great contribution to European literature

     
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  22. Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels
    A Selection of Bengali Short Stories
    Contributor: Bandyopadhyay, Manik (MitwirkendeR); Bandyopadhyay, Tarashankar (MitwirkendeR); Bardhan, Kalpana (HerausgeberIn); Devi, Mahasweia (MitwirkendeR); Devi, Mahasweta (MitwirkendeR); Hug, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Huq, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindmnath (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindranath (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: [1990]; ©1990
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories—stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society... more

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    Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories—stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical structures of privilege and class differentiation.Written over a span of roughly ninety years from the early 1890s to the late 1970s, the twenty stories in this collection represent the work of five authors. Their characters, drawn from widely varying social groups, often find themselves caught up in tumultuous political and social upheaval.The reader encounters Rabindranath Thakur's extraordinarily spirited and bold heroines; Manik Bandyopadhyay's peasants, laborers, fisherfolk, and outcastes; and Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay's rural underclass of snake-charmers, corpse-handlers, stick-wielders, potters, witches, and Vaishnava minstrels. Mahasweta Devi gives voice to the semi-landless tribals and untouchables effectively denied the rights guaranteed them by the Constitution; Hasan Azizul Huq depicts the plight of the impoverished of Bangladesh

     
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    Contributor: Bandyopadhyay, Manik (MitwirkendeR); Bandyopadhyay, Tarashankar (MitwirkendeR); Bardhan, Kalpana (HerausgeberIn); Devi, Mahasweia (MitwirkendeR); Devi, Mahasweta (MitwirkendeR); Hug, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Huq, Hasan Azizul (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindmnath (MitwirkendeR); Thakur, Rabindranath (MitwirkendeR)
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    Subjects: Short stories, Bengali; Short stories, Bengali; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Other subjects: 19th century; 20th century; academic; asian literature; bengali literature; contemporary; domestic; eastern literature; family life; feminism; feminist history; feminist; folk stories; folk tales; folklore; international literature; literary analysis; literary; scholarly; short stories; short story anthology; short story collection; womens history; womens issues
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  23. The Life of a Text
    Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas
    Author: Lutgendorf, Philip
    Published: [1991]; ©1991
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists,... more

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    The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text—the epic Ramcaritmanas—and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture.The most popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi literature has always reached its largely illiterate audiences primarily through oral performance including ceremonial recitation, folksinging, oral exegesis, and theatrical representation. Drawing on fieldwork in Banaras, Lutgendorf breaks new ground by capturing the range of performance techniques in vivid detail and tracing the impact of the epic in its contemporary cultural context

     
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    Author: Kajfosz, Jan
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    The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Těšín Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The... more

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    The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in the narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Těšín Silesia). The point of departure is a phenomenological and social constructivist approach to human cognition. The author follows the cognitive dimensions of pre-modern folklore and popular texts in general. They are conventional in the sense that they are repeated in many variants inside one communicative group. Habituation based on more or less accurate reproduction of stereotypes (and corresponding experiences), motives, action scenarios, rationalizations, and motivations, is the source of relatively stable world image. The key concept developed in the book is redefined categorization understood as the simplification and stabilization of too complex and changing reality through shared narratives.

     
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    Subjects: Volkserzählung; Magie <Motiv>; Religion & beliefs; Philosophy
    Other subjects: categorization; cognitive anthropology; folklore; Kajfosz; Magia; Magic; magical thinking; myth; Narracji; Narratives; Popular; Potocznej; Slaskiego; Teschen Silesia; Uniwersytetu; Wydawnictwo
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  25. Oral Literature in Africa
    Author: Finnegan, Ruth
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers, Cambridge ; OpenEdition, Marseille

    Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the... more

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    Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book can be read for free online. It is also available as a free pdf and ebook download, thanks to generous donations from supporters using the crowd-funding website Unglue.it. In addition, there is a free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s. All these digital extras are hosted by the World Oral Literature Project and available from the publisher's website or at: www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and the World Oral Literature Project.

     
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