Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher:
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Category : Fables, Hottentot
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Reynard the Fox in South Africa, Or, Hottentot Fables and Tales
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables, Hottentot
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables, Hottentot
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Reynard the Fox in South Africa Or Hottentot Fables and Tales
Author: Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals, Legends and stories of
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals, Legends and stories of
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody Library
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
FF Communications
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Storytelling around the World
Author: Jelena Cvorovic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today. This book serves as an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in storytelling and in multicultural approaches to the arts. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines, from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists, use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them. This text addresses stories and storytelling across both time (thousands of years) and geography, including in-depth descriptions of storytelling practices occurring in more than 40 different cultures around the world. Part I consists of thematic essays, exploring such topics as the history of storytelling, common elements across cultures, different media, lessons stories teach us, and storytelling today. Part II looks at more than 40 different cultures, with entries following the same outline: Overview, Storytellers: Who Tell the Stories, and When, Creation Mythologies, Teaching Tales and Values, and Cultural Preservation. Several tales/tale excerpts accompany each entry.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today. This book serves as an indispensable resource for students and scholars interested in storytelling and in multicultural approaches to the arts. By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century. The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines, from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists, use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them. This text addresses stories and storytelling across both time (thousands of years) and geography, including in-depth descriptions of storytelling practices occurring in more than 40 different cultures around the world. Part I consists of thematic essays, exploring such topics as the history of storytelling, common elements across cultures, different media, lessons stories teach us, and storytelling today. Part II looks at more than 40 different cultures, with entries following the same outline: Overview, Storytellers: Who Tell the Stories, and When, Creation Mythologies, Teaching Tales and Values, and Cultural Preservation. Several tales/tale excerpts accompany each entry.
A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (including the Library of Alex. Wylie, Esq.)
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North-China Branch. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Death and Compassion
Author: Dan Wylie
Publisher: Wits University Press
ISBN: 1776142187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary Elephants are in dire straits – again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion – or fail to do so – and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists’ accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
Publisher: Wits University Press
ISBN: 1776142187
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary Elephants are in dire straits – again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion – or fail to do so – and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists’ accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
Bernard Quaritch
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
South African Literature
Author: Manfred Nathan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afrikaans language
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afrikaans language
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description