Download or read book Perspectives on the Jack Tales written by Carl Lindahl and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jack in Two Worlds written by William Bernard McCarthy and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From climbing beanstalks to confronting beasts, the classic collection of “lively, entertaining stories . . . a valuable contribution to American folklore” (The New York Times). These rollicking folk tales from the southern Appalachians center on the many adventures of the irrepressible Jack, and showcase the wit and wisdom passed down from generation to generation through the oral tradition. It provides hours of delight for children—as well as an enjoyable and enlightening read for students of folklore and storytelling. “Humor, freshness, colorful American background, and the use of one character as a central figure in the cycle mark these eighteen folk tales, told here in the dialect of the mountain country of North Carolina.” —Booklist “Filled from cover to cover with good, rousing, exciting stories.” —Saturday Review of Literature “An appendix of sources and parallel themes to be found in other folklore is a scholarly and fascinating contribution . . . I’m glad it is placed at the end so that children will not be deterred from reading the stories for sheer fun.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales written by Christine Pavesic and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jack Tales derive from a Western European narrative cycle and are the oldest folktales to survive in the North American oral tradition. In the twenty-first century, the Jack Tales continue to retain their place at the forefront of Western Oral Tradition. Over the centuries the tales of Jack and his adventures have tended to absorb the interests and values of the culture in which they are operating. Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales: A Study of Appalachian History, Culture, and Philosophy, assesses folktales in the oral tradition and examines both the history and the cultural impact of them. It includes a survey of existing scholarship concerning orality and the European origins of the Jack Tales and then focuses upon a prominent Appalachian native recorder of the tales, Ray Hicks. His enthusiasm and skill as a storyteller has allowed Hicks to bring an ancient body of oral literature to all types of audiences. The way that Hicks has enhanced the Jack Tales through his manner of storytelling-the nature of his performance, his voice and mimicry, the stimulus of the audience and his response-is explored along with the setting of these tales-the Appalachian mountains.

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1943 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen Jak tales drawn from the folklore of the North Carolina mountain country.

Download or read book Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns written by Orville Hicks and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Life and Times of Ray Hicks written by Lynn Salsi and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Best known for his traditional storytelling and also for saving the original Beech Mountain Jack tales brought to the Appalachian Mountains by his ancestors as early as 1776, Hicks was conscious of the role he played in the preservation of oral storytelling. Many of those stories are included in The Life and Times of Ray Hicks. Born in 1922, Ray lived his whole life in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. (Although it finally got a refrigerator and electric lights, Ray's place never did get a telephone, indoor plumbing, or a radio or television.) It seems he knew everything there was to know about living off the land and about his family's history. A lot of what he knew is in this new book. Hicks made his public storytelling debut in 1951, when a local schoolteacher invited him to her class. In 1973, Ray performed at the very first International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He appeared at every one until he became too weak to attend. He died on Easter Sunday in 2003. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and visits, painstakingly pieced together by Lynn Salsi, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks comes as close as possible to capturing the way Ray talked. Part memoir and part biography, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks presents, sometimes in Ray Hicks's own words, the most important part of his long, colorful life-a life scarcely less interesting than the Jack Tales he told so well. Lynn Salsi is the author of several books, including The Jack Tales and Young Ray Hicks Learns the Jack Tales. She has received the American Library Association's Notable Book Award, six Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards, and was named the North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2001.

Download or read book Jack Always Seeks His Fortune written by Donald Davis and published by August House Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen Jack tales from the southern Appalachian Mountains, including "The Time Jack Told a Big Tale," "The Time Jack Cured the Doctor," and "The Time Jack Stole the Cows."

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2003-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. A collection of Appalachian folktales includes the adventures of Jack And The Beanstalk.

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase (Collector of Folk-Tales.) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tales of the North American Indians written by Stith Thompson and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1929 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Download or read book An Anthology of American Folktales and Legends written by F. A. De Caro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of American folktales and legends. It offers a variety of American legend and lore - from Appalachian Jack tales, African American folklore, riddles, trickster tales, tall tales, tales of the supernatural, legends of crime and criminals, tales of women, and urban legends.

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by R. Rex Stephenson and published by I E Clark. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devil s Pretty Daughter and Other Ozark Folk Tales written by Vance Randolph and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jack Tales written by Richard Chase and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an American version of the story of Jack and the beanstalk, together with 17 other tales about the adventures of Jack, a poor Appalachian farm boy.