Author: Joseph Charles Hickerson
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Bibliography on the Ballad
Author: Joseph Charles Hickerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: Wilfred Partington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated The Print Collector
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
Guide to Reprints, 1985
Author: Ann S. Davis
Publisher: Guide to Reprints
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher: Guide to Reprints
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
The Life and Traditions of the Red Man
Author: Joseph Nicolar
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822389843
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. Self-published by Nicolar in 1893, this is one of the few sustained narratives in English composed by a member of an Eastern Algonquian-speaking people during the nineteenth century. At a time when Native Americans’ ability to exist as Natives was imperiled, Nicolar wrote his book in an urgent effort to pass on Penobscot cultural heritage to subsequent generations of the tribe and to reclaim Native Americans’ right to self-representation. This extraordinary work weaves together stories of Penobscot history, precontact material culture, feats of shamanism, and ancient prophecies about the coming of the white man. An elder of the Penobscot Nation in Maine and the grandson of the Penobscots’ most famous shaman-leader, Old John Neptune, Nicolar brought to his task a wealth of traditional knowledge. The Life and Traditions of the Red Man has not been widely available until now, largely because Nicolar passed away just a few months after the printing of the book was completed, and shortly afterwards most of the few hundred copies that had been printed were lost in a fire. This new edition has been prepared with the assistance of Nicolar’s descendants and members of the Penobscot Nation. It includes a summary history of the tribe; an introduction that illuminates the book’s narrative strategies, the aims of its author, and its key themes; and annotations providing historical context and explaining unfamiliar words and phrases. The book also contains a preface by Nicolar’s grandson, Charles Norman Shay, and an afterword by Bonnie D. Newsom, former Director of the Penobscot Nation’s Department of Cultural and Historic Preservation. The Life and Traditions of the Red Man is a remarkable narrative of Native American culture, spirituality, and literary daring.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822389843
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Joseph Nicolar’s The Life and Traditions of the Red Man tells the story of his people from the first moments of creation to the earliest arrivals and eventual settlement of Europeans. Self-published by Nicolar in 1893, this is one of the few sustained narratives in English composed by a member of an Eastern Algonquian-speaking people during the nineteenth century. At a time when Native Americans’ ability to exist as Natives was imperiled, Nicolar wrote his book in an urgent effort to pass on Penobscot cultural heritage to subsequent generations of the tribe and to reclaim Native Americans’ right to self-representation. This extraordinary work weaves together stories of Penobscot history, precontact material culture, feats of shamanism, and ancient prophecies about the coming of the white man. An elder of the Penobscot Nation in Maine and the grandson of the Penobscots’ most famous shaman-leader, Old John Neptune, Nicolar brought to his task a wealth of traditional knowledge. The Life and Traditions of the Red Man has not been widely available until now, largely because Nicolar passed away just a few months after the printing of the book was completed, and shortly afterwards most of the few hundred copies that had been printed were lost in a fire. This new edition has been prepared with the assistance of Nicolar’s descendants and members of the Penobscot Nation. It includes a summary history of the tribe; an introduction that illuminates the book’s narrative strategies, the aims of its author, and its key themes; and annotations providing historical context and explaining unfamiliar words and phrases. The book also contains a preface by Nicolar’s grandson, Charles Norman Shay, and an afterword by Bonnie D. Newsom, former Director of the Penobscot Nation’s Department of Cultural and Historic Preservation. The Life and Traditions of the Red Man is a remarkable narrative of Native American culture, spirituality, and literary daring.
Fionn mac Cumhail
Author: James MacKillop
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue to be told by storytellers in Ireland and in Gaelic Scotland to this day. This book traces the development of Fionn's persona in Irish and Scottish texts and constructs a heroic biography of him. As aspects of the hero are borrowed into English and later world literature, his personality undergoes several changes. Seen as less than admirable, he may become either a buffoon or a blackguard. Somehow these contradictions exist side by side. Among the writers in English most interested in Fionn are James Macpherson, the "translator" of The Poems of Ossian ( 17601, William Carleton, the first great fiction writer of nineteenth-century Ireland, and Fiann O'Brien, the multifaceted author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Aspects of Fiann appear as far apart as Mendelssohn's "Hebrides (or Fingal 's Cave) Overture" and a contemporary rock opera. But the most complex use of Fionn's story in modern literature is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815623533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue to be told by storytellers in Ireland and in Gaelic Scotland to this day. This book traces the development of Fionn's persona in Irish and Scottish texts and constructs a heroic biography of him. As aspects of the hero are borrowed into English and later world literature, his personality undergoes several changes. Seen as less than admirable, he may become either a buffoon or a blackguard. Somehow these contradictions exist side by side. Among the writers in English most interested in Fionn are James Macpherson, the "translator" of The Poems of Ossian ( 17601, William Carleton, the first great fiction writer of nineteenth-century Ireland, and Fiann O'Brien, the multifaceted author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Aspects of Fiann appear as far apart as Mendelssohn's "Hebrides (or Fingal 's Cave) Overture" and a contemporary rock opera. But the most complex use of Fionn's story in modern literature is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds
Author: Daniel Ogden
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199925097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds offers a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199925097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Dragons, Serpents, and Slayers in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds offers a comprehensive and easily accessible collection of dragon myths from Greek, Roman, and early Christian sources.
Goddesses in World Mythology
Author: Martha Ann
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
This dictionary focuses on more than 9,500 goddesses from hundreds of cultures around the world.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
This dictionary focuses on more than 9,500 goddesses from hundreds of cultures around the world.
Catalogue
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description