Download or read book Gesta Romanorum Or Entertaining Moral Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gesta Romanorum Or Entertaining Moral Stories written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gesta Romanorum written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pleasant Nights Volume 2 written by Don Beecher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature readers’ and seventeen proto-fairy tales. Nearly all of these stories, including classics such as ‘Puss in Boots,’ made their first ever appearance in this collection; together, the tales comprise one of the most varied and engaging Renaissance miscellanies ever produced. Its appeal sustained it through twenty-six editions in the first sixty years. This full critical edition of The Pleasant Nights presents these stories in English for the first time in over a century. The text takes its inspiration from the celebrated Waters translation, which is entirely revised here to render it both more faithful to the original and more sparkishly idiomatic than ever before. The stories are accompanied by a rich sampling of illustrations, including originals from nineteenth-century English and French versions of the text. As a comprehensive critical and historical edition, these volumes contain far more information on the stories than can be found in any existing studies, literary histories, or Italian editions of the work. Donald Beecher provides a lengthy introduction discussing Straparola as an author, the nature of fairy tales and their passage through oral culture, and how this phenomenon provides a new reservoir of stories for literary adaptation. Moreover, the stories all feature extensive commentaries analysing not only their themes but also their fascinating provenances, drawing on thousands of analogue tales going back to ancient Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic stories. Immensely entertaining and readable, The Pleasant Nights will appeal to anyone interested in fairy tales, ancient stories, and folk creations. Such readers will also enjoy Beecher’s academically solid and erudite commentaries, which unfold in a manner as light and amusing as the stories themselves.
Download or read book Gesta Romanorum written by Wynnard Hooper and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folktales of the Jews Volume 2 written by Dan Ben-Amos and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Ashkenasic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition
Download or read book Catalogue of the London library written by John George Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art written by Yvonne Owens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, 'death and the maiden' and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from-and contributed to-the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural 'feminine defect,' a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung's iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.
Download or read book English Writers written by Henry Morley and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue on the Very Extensive and Valuable Library of the Late Reverend Dr Wellesley written by Henry Wellesley and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book British Popular Customs Present and Past written by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "British Popular Customs, Present and Past" (Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year) by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The poems of Heine written by Heinrich Heine and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEINRICH HEINE, (BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH) EARLY POEMS Sonnets to my Mother, B. Heine, née Von Geldern The Sphinx Donna Clara Don Ramiro Tannhäuser. In the Underworld The Vale of Tears Solomon Morphine Song HOMEWARD BOUND SONGS TO SERAPHINE To Angelique Spring Festival Childe Harold The Asra Helena Song THE NORTH SEA—First Cyclus Coronation Twilight Sunset Night on the Shore Poseidon Declaration Night in the Cabin Storm Calm An Apparition in the Sea Purification Peace Second Cyclus Salutation to the Sea Tempest Wrecked Sunset The Song of the Oceanides The Gods of Greece The Phœnix Question Sea-sickness In Port Epilogue
Download or read book A Dictionary of Latin and Greek quotations proverbs maxims and mottos written by Henry Thomas Riley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
