Author: E. S. Stevens
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486444058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this enchanting book includes "The Fish That Laughed," "The Blind Sultan," and 46 other adventures, which will captivate readers of all ages.
Folktales of Iraq
Author: E. S. Stevens
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486444058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this enchanting book includes "The Fish That Laughed," "The Blind Sultan," and 46 other adventures, which will captivate readers of all ages.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486444058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this enchanting book includes "The Fish That Laughed," "The Blind Sultan," and 46 other adventures, which will captivate readers of all ages.
Folktales of Iraq
Author: Arnold Wilson
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this enchanting book includes "The Fish That Laughed," "The Blind Sultan," and 46 other adventures, which will captivate readers of all ages.
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The first English-language collection of Iraqi fairy tales, this enchanting book includes "The Fish That Laughed," "The Blind Sultan," and 46 other adventures, which will captivate readers of all ages.
Lady E. S. Drower's Scholarly Correspondence
Author: Jorunn Buckley
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004222472
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879‐1972) kept up a lively correspondence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid 1960s. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid 20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on, and succeeding in, a place among the academics.. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004222472
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
An edition of the scholarly letters of the English Lady E. S. Drower, famous for her novels, travel accounts, and studies in the Middle East, especially on the Mandaeans. Drower (1879‐1972) kept up a lively correspondence with scholars, and the letters here span the years 1938 to the mid 1960s. It presents a window on Near Eastern studies in the mid 20th century, from the viewpoint of an autodidact insisting on, and succeeding in, a place among the academics.. Correspondence with many famous scholars and intellectuals are included, such as Cyrus H. Gordon, Rudolf Macuch, Sidney H. Smith, Godfrey R. Driver, Samuel H. Hooke, and Franz Rosenthal. The letters focus on four of Lady Drower's main books: The Book of the Zodiac (1949), Water into Wine (1956), A Mandaic Dictionary (with Rudolf Macuch, 1963), and Drowers hoped for, crowning achievement: the presumably lost, large manuscript, Mass and Masiqta.
Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran
Author: Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Mandaeans
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Mandaeans
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
In Search of the Swan Maiden
Author: Barbara Fass Leavy
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814752683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have most often been interpreted as depicting exogamous marriages, describing the girl from another tribe trapped in a world where she will always be the outsider. Barbara Fass Leavy believes that, in the societies in which the tale and its variants endured, woman was the other--the outsider trapped in a society that could never be her own. Leavy shows how the tale, though rarely explicitly recognized, is frequently replayed in modern literature. Beautifully written, this book reveals the myriad ways in which the folktales of a society reflect its cultural values, and particularly how folktales are allegories of gender relations. It will interest anyone involved in literary, gender, and cultural studies.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814752683
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. --The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman forced to marry, keep house, and bear children for a mortal man who holds the key to her imprisonment. When she manages to regain this key, she escapes to the otherworld, never to return. These tales have most often been interpreted as depicting exogamous marriages, describing the girl from another tribe trapped in a world where she will always be the outsider. Barbara Fass Leavy believes that, in the societies in which the tale and its variants endured, woman was the other--the outsider trapped in a society that could never be her own. Leavy shows how the tale, though rarely explicitly recognized, is frequently replayed in modern literature. Beautifully written, this book reveals the myriad ways in which the folktales of a society reflect its cultural values, and particularly how folktales are allegories of gender relations. It will interest anyone involved in literary, gender, and cultural studies.
American Book Publishing Record
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
The Elephant's Bathtub
Author: Frances Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Fables from 16 Asian countries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Fables from 16 Asian countries.
The Islamic Near East and North Africa
Author: David W. Littlefield
Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Annotated bibliography on the Islamic Middle East and North Africa - includes regional level and national level studies.
Publisher: Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Africa, North
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Annotated bibliography on the Islamic Middle East and North Africa - includes regional level and national level studies.
Journal of American Folklore
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Area Handbook for Iraq
Author: Harvey Henry Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iraq
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description