Author: Albert Adès
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Goha the Fool
Author: Albert Adès
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Trickster Tales
Author:
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Stories from cultures including ancient Babylonia, China, India, Eastern Europe, Morocco.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834505
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Stories from cultures including ancient Babylonia, China, India, Eastern Europe, Morocco.
Goha the Wise Fool
Author:
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Fifteen short stories featuring Goha, a character from the Middle east.
Publisher: Philomel
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Fifteen short stories featuring Goha, a character from the Middle east.
Goha and His Donkey
Author:
Publisher: Books for Young Learners
ISBN: 9781572741805
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Goha learns that you cannot please everyone.
Publisher: Books for Young Learners
ISBN: 9781572741805
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Goha learns that you cannot please everyone.
The Modern Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Folktales of Egypt
Author: Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226206238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. "This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable."—Daniel J. Crowley, Research in African Literatures "Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed."—Kenneth J. Perkins, International Journal of Oral History
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226206238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give Middle Eastern lore the scholarly attention it has long deserved. "This collection of seventy recently collected Egyptian tales is a major contribution to African studies and to international distribution studies of folktales. In the face of the recent anthropological trend to use folkloric materials for extra-folkloric purposes, the preeminence of the text must be asserted once more, and these are obviously authentic, straightforwardly translated, fully documented as to date of collection and social category of informant, and for all that . . . readable."—Daniel J. Crowley, Research in African Literatures "Western knowledge of virtually all facets of contemporary Egyptian culture, much less the roots of that culture, is woefully inadequate. By providing an interesting, varied, and readable collection of Egyptian folktales and offering clear and sensible accounts of their background and meaning, this book renders a valuable service indeed."—Kenneth J. Perkins, International Journal of Oral History
The Book of the Thousand and One Nights
Author: E.P. Mathers
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134550502
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 3253
Book Description
First published in 2013. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134550502
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 3253
Book Description
First published in 2013. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.
The Book of the Thousand and One Nights
Author: J.C. Mardrus
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135854688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
First published in 1986. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135854688
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
First published in 1986. An unabashed and accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian Nights, complete in four volumes.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night
Author: Joseph Charles Mardrus
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415045421
Category : Arabic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Volume four of this translation of the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415045421
Category : Arabic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Volume four of this translation of the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.
Old Tales and New Truths
Author: James Roy King
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791408537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This guidebook to the Bright-Shadow World develops three closely related issues. The first is the position that fairytales and folktales are of value today because they encourage the growth of capabilities important in our postmodern world. Each of us, like the fairytale hero, sets out on his/her own quests, seeks his/her own identity, faces his/her own dilemmas with few resources but wit, imagination, and a certain power of improvisation. King develops the implications of this situation for such common fairytale problems as learning to read the world productively; navigating various kinds of "edges;" exploiting power sources; developing highly personal moral commitments; problem solving; and data collecting. The second concern of this book is with the development of a system for analyzing narrative structure. The formula offered here involves an examination of interactions among actors, physical settings, lines of force, and power sources as a narrative moves toward its denouement. This system facilitates the classifying, and contrasting of narratives, and illuminates the structure of both narrative and lived experience. Finally, this book is concerned with myth-making or world-making processes. It is shown that traditional narrative actually points to and delineates another dimension of existence (here called "the Bright-Shadow World") that operates by rules of its own and may be penetrated by individuals from our ordinary world. Inferences about the Bright-Shadow World drawn from traditional narrative are described and evaluated.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791408537
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This guidebook to the Bright-Shadow World develops three closely related issues. The first is the position that fairytales and folktales are of value today because they encourage the growth of capabilities important in our postmodern world. Each of us, like the fairytale hero, sets out on his/her own quests, seeks his/her own identity, faces his/her own dilemmas with few resources but wit, imagination, and a certain power of improvisation. King develops the implications of this situation for such common fairytale problems as learning to read the world productively; navigating various kinds of "edges;" exploiting power sources; developing highly personal moral commitments; problem solving; and data collecting. The second concern of this book is with the development of a system for analyzing narrative structure. The formula offered here involves an examination of interactions among actors, physical settings, lines of force, and power sources as a narrative moves toward its denouement. This system facilitates the classifying, and contrasting of narratives, and illuminates the structure of both narrative and lived experience. Finally, this book is concerned with myth-making or world-making processes. It is shown that traditional narrative actually points to and delineates another dimension of existence (here called "the Bright-Shadow World") that operates by rules of its own and may be penetrated by individuals from our ordinary world. Inferences about the Bright-Shadow World drawn from traditional narrative are described and evaluated.