Author: Frederick Victor Dickins
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Category : Japanese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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竹取物語
Author: Frederick Victor Dickins
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Category : Japanese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : Japanese literature
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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Great Short Novels of the World
Author: Barrett Harper Clark
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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An anthology of short stories, fairy tales, myths, and legends from around the world. Before each short novel, the editor has written a biographical sketch of the author, and before each national grouping is a brief discussion of that country's place in world literature.
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1328
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An anthology of short stories, fairy tales, myths, and legends from around the world. Before each short novel, the editor has written a biographical sketch of the author, and before each national grouping is a brief discussion of that country's place in world literature.
The Old Bamboo-hewer's Story
Author: Frederick Victor Dickins
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Languages : en
Pages : 828
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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Taketori No Okina No Monogatari
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Myth And Prehistoric Global Navigation - A dialogue
Author: J. J. Fraenkel
Publisher: MCP Business Intelligence
ISBN: 9077713085
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Publisher: MCP Business Intelligence
ISBN: 9077713085
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Women Who Fly
Author: Serinity Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019065970X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019065970X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
List of Novels and Tales in the English, French, German and Spanish Languages, March, 1894
Author: Los Angeles Public Library
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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