Author: Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bīdpāī
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables of Bīdpāʾi
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Ramsay Wood
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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A new edition of Ramsay Wood's definitive English retelling of The Fables of Bidpai.

Author: Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465536124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Sarma, Visnu
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140455663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by a great king to awaken the dulled intelligence of his three idle sons, the aging Sarma is said to have composed the great work as a series of entertaining and edifying fables narrated by a wide range of humans and animals, and together intended to provide the young princes with vital guidance for life. Since first leaving India before AD 570, the Pancatantra has been widely translated and has influenced a cast number of works in India, the Arab world and Europe, including the Arabian Nights, the Canterbury Tales and the Fables of La Fontaine. Enduring and profound, it is among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables.

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004307729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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This volume offers an overview of the rich narrative material circulating in the medieval Mediterranean. As a multilingual and multicultural zone, the Eastern Mediterranean offered a broad market for tales in both oral and written form and longer works of fiction, which were translated and reworked in order to meet the tastes and cultural expectations of new audiences, thus becoming common intellectual property of all the peoples around the Mediterranean shores. Among others, the volume examines for the first time popular eastern tales, such as Kalila and Dimna, Sindbad, Barlaam and Joasaph, and Arabic epics together with their Byzantine adaptations. Original Byzantine love romances, both learned and vernacular, are discussed together with their Persian counterparts and with later adaptations of western stories. This combination of such disparate narrative material aims to highlight both the wealth of medieval storytelling and the fundamental unity of the medieval Mediterranean world. Contributors are Carolina Cupane, Faustina Doufikar-Aerts, Massimo Fusillo, Corinne Jouanno, Grammatiki A. Karla, Bettina Krönung, Renata Lavagnini, Ulrich Moennig, Ingela Nilsson, Claudia Ott, Oliver Overwien, Panagiotis Roilos, Julia Rubanovich, Ida Toth, Robert Volk and Kostas Yiavis.

Author: Viggo Fausbøll
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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Author: Ken Seigneurie
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781118635193
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3808

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A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives. Almost by definition, the texts of world literature are unfamiliar; they stretch our hermeneutic circles, thrust us before unfamiliar genres, modes, forms, and themes. They require a greater degree of attention and focus, and in turn engage our imagination in new ways. This Companion explores texts within their particular cultural context, as well as their ability to speak to readers in other contexts, demonstrating the ways in which world literature can challenge parochial world views by identifying cultural commonalities. Each unique volume includes introductory chapters on a variety of theoretical viewpoints that inform the field, followed by essays considering the ways in which authors and their books contribute to and engage with the many visions and variations of world literature as a genre. Explores how texts, tropes, narratives, and genres reflect nations, languages, cultures, and periods Links world literary theory and texts in a clear, synoptic style Identifies how individual texts are influenced and affected by issues such as intertextuality, translation, and sociohistorical conditions Presents a variety of methodologies to demonstrate how modern scholars approach the study of world literature A significant addition to the field, A Companion to World Literature provides advanced students, teachers, and researchers with cutting-edge scholarship in world literature and literary theory.

Author: Saint Euthymius (the Illuminator)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barlaam and Joasaph
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Briquets (Fuel)
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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