Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Kalilah and Dimnah or the Fables of Bidpai
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Excelsior
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Excelsior
Author: James Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Kalīlah and Dimnah, Or, The Fables of Bidpai
Author: Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables of Bidpai
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables of Bidpai
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1
Author: Don Beecher
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442699523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442699523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
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.
The Pleasant Nights
Author: Giovanni Francesco Straparola
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442644265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442644265
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 777
Book Description
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.
Kalilah and Dimnah
Author: Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bīdpāī
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bīdpāī
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
India
Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0030061148
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0030061148
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.
Essays chiefly on the science of language with index to vols 3 and 4
Author: Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Chips from a German Workshop
Author: Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385524695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385524695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.