Download or read book The Greenwood Library of World Folktales Africa the Middle East Australia and Oceania written by Thomas A. Green and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers tales that are the foundations of the world's traditions, literature, and popular culture and are fundamental to daily life.
Download or read book The Greenwood Library of World Folktales 4 volumes written by Thomas A. Green and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Amazon to the Arctic, the world is teeming with diverse cultures. There's no better way for students to explore the world's cultural diversity than through its folktales. Presenting tales from the foundations of the world's traditions, literature, daily life, and popular culture, The Greenwood Library of World Folktales: Stories from the Great Collections gathers together a vast array of folktales and arranges them according to region or cultural group, thus allowing students to quickly and conveniently learn about the tales of particular cultures. Some of these stories have been told for centuries, while others have emerged only in recent times. The four-volume set includes introductory essays in addition to explanatory headnotes, and provides bibliographies on particular regions as well as a selected, general bibliography. The most comprehensive work of its kind, this set gives students and general readers a guided tour of the world's folktales. Each volume of the set is devoted to a particular broad geographic region: Volume 1: Africa, The Middle East, Australia and Oceania Volume 2: Asia Volume 3: Europe Volume 4: North and South America Accessible, informative, and entertaining, this book will help literature students learn how to analyze texts and understand the traditions at the heart of many of the world's literary masterpieces. It will also help social studies students learn about the world's cultures and respect ethnic diversity.
Download or read book The Greenwood Library of World Folktales Asia written by Thomas A. Green and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers tales that are the foundations of the world's traditions, literature, and popular culture and are fundamental to daily life.
Download or read book The Greenwood Library of World Folktales Europe written by Thomas A. Green and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers tales that are the foundations of the world's traditions, literature, and popular culture and are fundamental to daily life.
Download or read book The Greenwood Library of World Folktales North and South America written by Thomas A. Green and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers tales that are the foundations of the world's traditions, literature, and popular culture and are fundamental to daily life.
Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife Topics and themes Africa Australia and Oceania written by William M. Clements and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students and general readers, this massive encyclopedia authoritatively reviews the folklore and folkways of cultures from around the world.
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Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife Europe written by William M. Clements and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students and general readers, this massive encyclopedia authoritatively reviews the folklore and folkways of cultures from around the world.
Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife North and South America written by William M. Clements and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students and general readers, this massive encyclopedia authoritatively reviews the folklore and folkways of cultures from around the world.
Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife Southeast Asia and India Central and East Asia Middle East written by William M. Clements and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for students and general readers, this massive encyclopedia authoritatively reviews the folklore and folkways of cultures from around the world.
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Download or read book Millennial Mythmaking written by John Perlich and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary myths, particularly science fiction and fantasy texts, can provide commentary on who we are as a culture, what we have created, and where we are going. These nine essays from a variety of disciplines expand upon the writings of Joseph Campbell and the hero's journey. Modern examples of myths from various sources such as Planet of the Apes, Wicked, Pan's Labyrinth, and Spirited Away; the Harry Potter series; and Second Life are analyzed as creative mythology and a representation of contemporary culture and emerging technology.
Download or read book Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World written by Graham Seal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from the Americas to Zanzibar. Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines—real and imagined—that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through migrations to new countries and languages. This encyclopedia is a one-stop source for broad coverage of the world's folk hero tales. Geared toward high school and early college readers, the book opens with an overview of folk heroes and heroines that provides invaluable context and then presents a chronology. The book is divided into two main sections: the first provides entries on the major types and themes; the second addresses specific folk tale characters organized by continent with folk hero entries organized alphabetically. Each entry provides cross references as well as a list of further readings. Continent sections include a bibliography for additional research. The book concludes with an alphabetical list of heroes and an index of hero types.
Download or read book Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
