Author: Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher: Corinthian Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Author: Halldór Hermannsson
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Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: Halldór Hermannsson (Skandinavist, Kurator)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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Author: Cornell University. Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Icelandic language
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: Cornell University. Library
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Category : Fiske Icelandic Collection
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Erland Munch-Petersen
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9788773030806
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 172523646X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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To many observers, folklore and book culture may appear to be opposites. Folklore, after all, involves orally circulated stories and traditions while book culture is concerned with the transmission of written texts. However, as Kevin J. Hayes points out, there are many instances where the two intersect, and exploring those intersections is the purpose of this fascinating and provocative study. Hayes shows that the acquisition of knowledge and the ownership of books have not displaced folklore but instead have given rise to new beliefs and superstitions. Some books have generated new proverbs; others have fostered their own legends. Occasionally the book has served as an important motif in folklore, and in one folk genre--the flyleaf rhyme--the book itself has become the place where folklore occurs, thus indicating a lively interaction between folk, print, and manuscript culture. The author begins by examining the tradition of the Volksbucher--cheaply printed books, often concerned with the occult, whose powers are said to transcend the written text. Hayes looks in depth at one particular Volksbuch--The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses--and proceeds, in subsequent chapters, to discuss a variety of folktales and legends, placing them within the context of book culture and the history of education. He closes with an examination of flyleaf rhymes, the little verses that book owners have inscribed in their books, and considers what they reveal about the identity of the inscribers as well as about attitudes toward book lending, book borrowing, and the circulation of knowledge. Solidly researched and venturing into areas long neglected by scholars. Folklore and Book Culture is a work that will engage not only folklorists but historians and literary scholars as well.

Author: Sylvia Brockstieger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111242692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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A cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant 'culture of handwriting' to a predominant 'culture of print' in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on East Asian manuscript and print culture. This approach highlights interactions and interdependencies instead of retracing a linear process from the manuscript book to its printed successor. While each chapter is written as a disciplinary study focused on one specific case from the respective field, the volume as a whole allows for transcultural perspectives. It thereby not only focusses on change, but also on simultaneities of manuscript and printing practices as well as on shifts in the perception of media, writing surfaces, and materials: Which values did writers, printers, and readers attribute to the handwritten and printed materials? For which types of texts was handwriting preferred or perceived as suitable? How and under which circumstances could handwritten and printed texts coexist, even within the same document, and which epistemic dynamics emerged from such textual assemblages?

Author: University of St. Andrews
Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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