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Book A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English

Download or read book A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English written by Edith Fowke and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1982-12-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only comprehensive bibliography of Canadian folklore in English. The 3877 different items are arranged by genres: folktales; folk music and dance; folk speech and naming; superstitions, popular beliefs, folk medicine, and the supernatural; folk life and customs; folk art and material culture; and within genres by ethnic groups: Anglophone and Celtic, Francophone, Indian and Inuit, and other cultural groups. The items include reference books, periodicals, articles, records, films, biographies of scholars and informants, and graduate theses. Each items is annotated through a coding that indicates whether it is academic or popular, its importance to the scholar, and whether it is suitable for young people. The introduction includes a brief survey of Canadian folklore studies, putting this work into academic and social perspective. The book covers all the important items and most minor items dealing with Canadian folklore published in English up to the end of 1979. It is concerned with legitimate Canadian folklore – whether transplanted from other countries and preserved here, or created here to reflect the culture of this country. It distinguishes between authentic folklore presented as collected and popular treatments in which the material has been rewritten by the authors. Intended primarily for scholars of folklore, international as well as Canadian, the book will also be of use to scholars in anthropology, cultural geography, oral history, and other branches of Canadian culture studies, as well as to librarians, teachers, and the general public.

Book Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana

Download or read book Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana written by Nathan Rabalais and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana’s remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing connections between Louisiana and France, West Africa, Canada, and the Antilles, Rabalais explores how folk characters, motifs, and morals adapted to their new contexts in Louisiana. By viewing the state’s folklore in the light of its immigration history, he demonstrates how folktales can serve as indicators of sociocultural adaptation as well as contact among cultural communities. In particular, he examines the ways in which collective traumas experienced by Louisiana’s major ethnic groups—slavery, the grand dérangement, linguistic discrimination—resulted in fundamental changes in these folktales in relation to their European and African counterparts. Rabalais points to the development of an altered moral economy in Cajun and Creole folktales. Conventional heroic qualities, such as physical strength, are subverted in Louisiana folklore in favor of wit and cunning. Analyses of Black Creole animal tales like those of Bouki et Lapin and Tortie demonstrate the trickster hero’s ability to overcome both literal and symbolic entrapment through cleverness. Some elements of Louisiana’s folklore tradition, such as the rougarou and cauchemar, remain an integral presence in the state’s cultural landscape, apparent in humor, popular culture, regional branding, and children’s books. Through its adaptive use of folklore, French and Creole Louisiana will continue to retell old stories in innovative ways as well as create new stories for future generations.

Book Canadian Fairy Tales

Download or read book Canadian Fairy Tales written by Cyrus MacMillan and published by London : J. Lane. This book was released on 1922 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folktales of French Canada

Download or read book Folktales of French Canada written by Edith Fowke and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Witch of the North

Download or read book The Witch of the North written by Mary Alice Downie and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COLLECTION OF FRENCH CANADIAN FOLK TALES ADAPTED FOR THE YOUNG READER. GRADES 4-6.

Book French Canadian Folklore

Download or read book French Canadian Folklore written by Brother Leo Sylvius Côté and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Folk life and Folk lore

Download or read book Canadian Folk life and Folk lore written by William Parker Greenough and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Golden Phoenix  and Other French Canadian Fairy Tales

Download or read book The Golden Phoenix and Other French Canadian Fairy Tales written by Michael Hornyansky and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight European fairy tales brought from France that have become part of French-Canadian folklore.

Book Legends of Le D  troit

Download or read book Legends of Le D troit written by Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin and published by Detroit : T. Nourse. This book was released on 1883 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Folk Songs of French Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marius Barbeau
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-06
  • ISBN : 9781436676816
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Folk Songs of French Canada written by Marius Barbeau and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Folklore in the United States and Canada

Download or read book Folklore in the United States and Canada written by Patricia Sawin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ensure continuity and foster innovation within the discipline of folklore, we must know what came before. Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential guide to the history and development of graduate folklore programs throughout the United States and Canada. As the first history of folklore studies since the mid-1980s, this book offers a long overdue look into the development of the earliest programs and the novel directions of more recent programs. The volume is encyclopedic in its coverage and is organized chronologically based on the approximate founding date of each program. Drawing extensively on archival sources, oral histories, and personal experience, the contributors explore the key individuals and central events in folklore programs at US and Canadian academic institutions and demonstrate how these programs have been shaped within broader cultural and historical contexts. Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States and Canada is an essential read for all folklorists and those who are studying to become folklorists.

Book  The Werwolves   Cryptofiction Classics   Weird Tales of Strange Creatures

Download or read book The Werwolves Cryptofiction Classics Weird Tales of Strange Creatures written by Henry Beaugrand and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Henry Beaugrand was originally published in 1898 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Werwolves' is a short story of men telling tales of creatures in the woods, but what if the tales are true. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre features bizarre, fantastical, and often terrifying tales of mythical and legendary creatures. Whether it be giant spiders, werewolves, lake monsters, or dinosaurs, the Cryptofiction Classics series offers a fantastic introduction to the world of weird creatures in fiction.

Book Introduction to International and Global Studies  Third Edition

Download or read book Introduction to International and Global Studies Third Edition written by Shawn C. Smallman and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shawn C. Smallman and Kimberley Brown's popular introductory textbook for undergraduates in international and global studies is now released in a substantially revised and updated third edition. Encompassing the latest scholarship in what has become a markedly interdisciplinary endeavor and an increasingly chosen undergraduate major, the book introduces key concepts, themes, and issues and then examines each in lively chapters on essential topics, including the history of globalization; economic, political, and cultural globalization; security, energy, and development; health; agriculture and food; and the environment. Within these topics the authors explore such diverse and pressing subjects as commodity chains, labor (including present-day slavery), pandemics, human rights, and multinational corporations and the connections among them. This textbook, used successfully in both traditional and online courses, provides the newest and most crucial information needed for understanding our rapidly changing world. New to this edition: *Close to 50% new material *New illustrations, maps, and tables *New and expanded emphases on political and economic globalization and populism; health; climate change, and development *Extensively revised exercises and activities *New resume-writing exercise in careers chapter *Thoroughly revised online teacher's manual

Book Folklore of Canada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edith Fowke
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Folklore of Canada written by Edith Fowke and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1976 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Canada's diverse folk traditions, including a section on native peoples with tales from each of the major groups.

Book The Present State of French Canadian Folklore Studies

Download or read book The Present State of French Canadian Folklore Studies written by Luc Lacourcière and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Out of the Northwoods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Edmonds
  • Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Release : 2010-09-24
  • ISBN : 0870204718
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Out of the Northwoods written by Michael Edmonds and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a ubiquitous icon of America's strength and ingenuity. Until now, no one knew where he came from—and the extent to which this mythical hero is rooted in Wisconsin. Out of the Northwoods presents the culture of nineteenth-century lumberjacks in their own words. It includes eyewitness accounts of how the first Bunyan stories were shared on frigid winter nights, around logging camp stoves, in the Wisconsin pinery. It describes where the tales began, how they moved out of the forest and into print, and why publication changed them forever. Part bibliographic mystery and part social history, Out of the Northwoods explains for the first time why we all know and love Paul Bunyan.

Book Explorations in Canadian Folklore

Download or read book Explorations in Canadian Folklore written by Edith Fowke and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 1985 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: