Hungarian Folktales

Hungarian Folktales PDF Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317946677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palkó and Linda Dégh. Dégh’s painstaking collection of Mrs. Palkó’s tales attracted the admiration of the Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palkó was named Master of Folklore by the Hungarian government and summoned to Budapest to receive ceremonial recognition. The unlettered 74-year-old woman from Kakasd had become “Aunt Zsuzsi” to Linda Dégh—and was about to become one of the world’s best known storytellers, through Dégh’s work.

Hungarian Folktales

Hungarian Folktales PDF Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317946677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Book Description
First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palkó and Linda Dégh. Dégh’s painstaking collection of Mrs. Palkó’s tales attracted the admiration of the Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palkó was named Master of Folklore by the Hungarian government and summoned to Budapest to receive ceremonial recognition. The unlettered 74-year-old woman from Kakasd had become “Aunt Zsuzsi” to Linda Dégh—and was about to become one of the world’s best known storytellers, through Dégh’s work.

Hungarian Folk-tales

Hungarian Folk-tales PDF Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192741486
Category : Folk literature, Hungarian
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Familiar and littl-known folk stories from Hungary.

Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

Old Hungarian Fairy Tales PDF Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613108850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Folktales and Society

Folktales and Society PDF Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253316790
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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A study of the Szeklers and their folktales.

Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time PDF Author: Gyula Illyés
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The Folk-tales of the Magyars

The Folk-tales of the Magyars PDF Author: W. Henry Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk-lore, Hungarian
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Part of "a vast and precious store of folk-lore...found amongst the Magyars" (preface), including stories of giants, fairies and witches, and superstitions concerning animals, plants, stones, and sundries.

“The” Folk-tales of the Magyars

“The” Folk-tales of the Magyars PDF Author: William Henry Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2

Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2 PDF Author: Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 0827608306
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 667

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Folktales from Eastern Europe presents 71 tales from Ashkenasic culture in the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. It is the second volume in Folktales of the Jews, the five-volume series to be released over the next several years, in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg's classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives at The University of Haifa, Israel (IFA), a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the Ashkenasic culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This volume and the others to come will be monuments to a rich but vanishing oral tradition

Traditional Slovak Folktales

Traditional Slovak Folktales PDF Author: Pavol Dobšinský
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765607188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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A selection of 50 Slovak folk tales assembled from the collections of folklorist Pavol Dobsinsky. The translator seeks to preserve the poetic qualities of the originals, and the book includes an introduction to the genres of the folktale and the specifics of Slovak tales.

Folktales of Egypt

Folktales of Egypt PDF Author: Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226206238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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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