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Book 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition

Download or read book 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition. Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures (i.e., authored written works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish). For a tale to be included, Ulrich Marzolph considered two criteria: that the tale originates from or at least was transmitted by a Middle Eastern source, and that it was recorded from a Western narrator's oral performance in the course of the nineteenth or twentieth century. The rationale behind these restrictive definitions is predicated on Marzolph's main concern with the long-lasting effect that some of the "Oriental" narratives exercised in Western popular tradition—those tales that have withstood the test of time. Marzolph focuses on the originally "Oriental" tales that became part and parcel of modern Western oral tradition. Since antiquity, the "Orient" constitutes the quintessential Other vis-à-vis the European cultures. While delineation against this Other served to define and reassure the Self, the "Orient" also constituted a constant source of fascination, attraction, and inspiration. Through oral retellings, numerous tales from Muslim tradition became an integral part of European oral and written tradition in the form of learned treatises, medieval sermons, late medieval fabliaux, early modern chapbooks, contemporary magazines, and more. In present times, when national narcissisms often acquire the status of strongholds delineating the Us against the Other, it is imperative to distinguish, document, visualize, and discuss the extent to which the West is not only indebted to the Muslim world but also shares common features with Muslim narrative tradition. 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.

Book Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults

Download or read book Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults written by Isabel Schon and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This installment covers books published mainly since 1989. Citations are grouped by subject within sections according to country, from Argentina to Venezuela. The author has rated each entry as to artistic and literary appeal, and provides general grade level, ISBN and price. Appendices include contact data for book dealers in Spanish-speaking countries and the US. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Recommended Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults

Download or read book Recommended Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults written by Isabel Schon and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the same format as the highly praised 2000-2004 edition, Recommended Books in Spanish for Children and Young Adults, 2004-2008 is an outstanding reference tool that includes annotated entries for more than 1,200 books in Spanish published between 2004 and 2008 in the U.S., Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. Each entry includes an extensive critical annotation, title in Spanish as well as English, tentative grade level, and approximate price. The books have been selected because of their quality of art and writing, presentation of material and appeal to the intended audience, and support the informational, educational, recreational and personal needs of Spanish speakers from preschool through the twelfth grade. Whether used for the development and support of an existing library collection or for the creation of a new library serving Spanish-speaking young readers, the books in this volume are of value to Spanish-speaking children and young adults (or those who wish to learn Spanish). This volume is arranged in four sections: Reference, Nonfiction (Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Social Science, Folklore, Language, Science, Technology, Health and Medicine, The Arts, Recreation and Sports, Literature, Poetry, Geography, History, and Biography), Publishers' Series, and Fiction (Easy Books, General Fiction and Graphic Novels). This volume also includes an appendix of merchants who sell books in Spanish, as well as author, title, and subject indexes.

Book Tea Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francis Amalfi
  • Publisher : Skyhorse
  • Release : 2015-10-20
  • ISBN : 1634509013
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Tea Time written by Francis Amalfi and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tea is a plant with many beneficial qualities for one’s health and spirit. In fact, the long life span of people in China has been associated with the population’s regular intake of green tea. Healthier than coffee and with a positively stimulating or relaxing effect—according to the length of boiling time—the vitamins and flavonoids in this infusion are not only healthy, but also help in fighting free radicals. Tea promotes creativity, harmony, and internal balance. This heavily illustrated book is the most complete guide to this Oriental treasure, which millions of Westerners also enjoy. In addition to valuable advice about its preparation, the pages include: • The history of tea and its main varieties • A complete guide for tea gourmets • Its curative and rejuvenating properties • The Japanese tea ceremony, step by step • The tea oracle: how to read the leaves • Over 60 recipes, including sangria tea, fajitas with tofu macerated in green tea, and many more! Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Book El Lector

    Book Details:
  • Author : Araceli Tinajero
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-02-01
  • ISBN : 0292773676
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book El Lector written by Araceli Tinajero and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of reading aloud has a long history, and the tradition still survives in Cuba as a hard-won right deeply embedded in cigar factory workers' culture. In El Lector, Araceli Tinajero deftly traces the evolution of the reader from nineteenth-century Cuba to the present and its eventual dissemination to Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. In interviews with present-day and retired readers, she records testimonies that otherwise would have been lost forever, creating a valuable archive for future historians. Through a close examination of journals, newspapers, and personal interviews, Tinajero relates how the reading was organized, how the readers and readings were selected, and how the process affected the relationship between workers and factory owners. Because of the reader, cigar factory workers were far more cultured and in touch with the political currents of the day than other workers. But it was not only the reading material, which provided political and literary information that yielded self-education, that influenced the workers; the act of being read to increased the discipline and timing of the artisan's job.

Book MultiCultural Review

Download or read book MultiCultural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Celebrating Cuentos

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  • Author : Jamie Campbell Naidoo
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-11-18
  • ISBN : 1591589053
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Celebrating Cuentos written by Jamie Campbell Naidoo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More effectively meet the diverse literacy needs of the growing Latino population by learning how to evaluate and select quality Latino children's literature. Latinos are the fastest growing and largest ethnic minority in the United States. The number of Latino children is at a historic high. As a result, librarians and teachers in the United States must know how to meet the informational, cultural, and traditional literacy needs of this student demographic group. An ideal way to overcome this challenge is by providing culturally accurate and authentic children's literature that represents the diversity of the Latino cultures. Much more than simply a topical bibliography, this book details both historical and current practices in educating Latino children; explains why having quality Latino children's literature in classrooms and libraries is necessary for the ethnic identity development of Latino children; and offers a historical overview of Latino children's literature in America. Web resources of interest to educators working with Latino children are also included.

Book Materials for Bilingual Bicultural Programs

Download or read book Materials for Bilingual Bicultural Programs written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others

Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book School Library Journal

Download or read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Libro Bilingue de Rimas  Canciones  Cuentos Y Juegos

Download or read book Libro Bilingue de Rimas Canciones Cuentos Y Juegos written by Pamela Byrne Schiller and published by Gryphon House, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 450 stories, songs, rhymes, and fingerplays for young children, each presented in English and Spanish; arranged by theme in nineteen categories, including animals, make believe, travel, and school days.

Book Jewish Writers of Latin America

Download or read book Jewish Writers of Latin America written by Darrell B. Lockhart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish writing has only recently begun to be recognized as a major cultural phenomenon in Latin American literature. Nevertheless, the majority of students and even Latin American literary specialists, remain uninformed about this significant body of writing. This Dictionary is the first comprehensive bibliographical and critical source book on Latin American Jewish literature. It represents the research efforts of 50 scholars from the United States, Latin America, and Israel who are dedicated to the advancement of Latin American Jewish studies. An introduction by the editor is followed by entries on 118 authors that provide both biographical information and a critical summary of works. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico-home to the largest Jewish communities in Latin America-are the countries with the greatest representation, but there are essays on writers from Venezuela, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Cuba.

Book Handbook of Latin American Studies  Vol  76

Download or read book Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol 76 written by Katherine D. McCann and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.

Book Essays on Argentine Narrators

Download or read book Essays on Argentine Narrators written by Thomas C. Meehan and published by Albatros Ediciones. This book was released on 1982 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voices from the Fuente Viva

Download or read book Voices from the Fuente Viva written by Amy Nauss Millay and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many twentieth-century Spanish American writers sought to give voice to their countries' native inhabitants. Drawing upon anthropology and literary theory, this book explores the representation of orality by major Spanish American anthropologist-writers: Lydia Cabrera, Jose Maria Arguedas, and Miguel Barnet. These writers played a quintessential role of the Spanish American writer from colonial times to the present: they inscribed the mythical world of a vanishing Other by creating a poetic effect of orality in their ethnographies and narratives. This book argues that supposed differences between oral and written culture are rhetorical devices in the elaboration of literature, specifically modern fiction in Spanish America. Fictionalization of the oral requires adherence to the theory of a great divide between orality and literacy. Because the texts considered here are predicated on the ideality of speech, a contradiction underlies their shared desire to salvage oral tradition. This book explores how anthropologist-writers have addressed this compelling dilemma in their anthropological and narrative writings. at Tufts University.

Book 101 Awesome Women Who Changed Our World

Download or read book 101 Awesome Women Who Changed Our World written by Julia Adams and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the lives of 101 trailblazing women and the remarkable things they achieved. This beautifully illustrated book is packed with bitesize biographies of activists, leaders, athletes, artists, explorers, and STEM innovators. From the celebrated to the overlooked, these women overcame odds, defied expectations and shattered stereotypes and their stories are sure to inspire young readers and encourage them to dream big. Spanning across history and from all over the globe, these figures include: • J.K. Rowling • Malala Yousafzai • Marie Curie • Maya Angelou • Wangari Maathai • Anne Frank • Simone Biles • Ada Lovelace • And many more! Written in a friendly and accessible style, this book includes quotations, fun facts and charming illustrations which bring the lives of these inspiring women to life. Perfect for kids aged 8+.