Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
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Category : Folk-lore, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
New Folklore Researches: Folk-prose
Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk-lore, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk-lore, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Russian Folk-tales
Author: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanasʹev
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Russian Folk-tales
Author: Leonard Arthur Magnus
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Children of the Ghetto: I
Author: Elias Khoury
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Lit by the sublime beauty and tragedy of classical Arabic poetry, a Palestinian falafel seller in New York sets out to shape fragments of his family history Weaving history, memory, and poetry, this unforgettable novel—and the 1st book in a trilogy—provides a sprawling memorial to the Nakba and the strangled lives left in its wake. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changes everything. It is when Adam encounters his former teacher that Adam discovers the story he must tell. Ma’moun’s testimony brings Adam back to the first years of his life in the ghetto of Lydia, in Palestine, where his family endured thirst, hunger, and terror in the aftermath of unspeakable horror. With unmatched literary craft and empathy, Khoury peels away layers of lost stories and repressed memories to unveil Adam’s story. Oscillating between two narrators—the self-reflexive "Elias Khoury" and Adam himself—Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam engages real (and invented) scholarly texts, Khoury’s own work, and Adam’s lost notebooks in an intertextual account of a life shadowed by atrocity.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Lit by the sublime beauty and tragedy of classical Arabic poetry, a Palestinian falafel seller in New York sets out to shape fragments of his family history Weaving history, memory, and poetry, this unforgettable novel—and the 1st book in a trilogy—provides a sprawling memorial to the Nakba and the strangled lives left in its wake. Long exiled in New York, Palestinian ex-pat Adam Dannoun thought he knew himself. But an encounter with Blind Mahmoud, a father figure from his childhood, changes everything. It is when Adam encounters his former teacher that Adam discovers the story he must tell. Ma’moun’s testimony brings Adam back to the first years of his life in the ghetto of Lydia, in Palestine, where his family endured thirst, hunger, and terror in the aftermath of unspeakable horror. With unmatched literary craft and empathy, Khoury peels away layers of lost stories and repressed memories to unveil Adam’s story. Oscillating between two narrators—the self-reflexive "Elias Khoury" and Adam himself—Children of the Ghetto: My Name is Adam engages real (and invented) scholarly texts, Khoury’s own work, and Adam’s lost notebooks in an intertextual account of a life shadowed by atrocity.
Folk-prose
Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Russian Folk-tales
Author: William Ralston Shedden Ralston
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Category : Folk literature, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Folk literature, Russian
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Warrior Women of Islam
Author: Remke Kruk
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736493
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval audiences, and spread by professional storytellers throughout the cities of the Muslim world, these fictions were printed and reprinted over the centuries and comprise a vital part of Arab culture. Yet virtually none are available in translation, and so remain almost unknown to a non-Arab public. Remke Kruk at last makes these neglected romances available to a Western audience. She recounts the story of Princess Dhat al-Himma, brave and undefeated leader of the Muslim army in its wars against the Byzantines; of Ghamra, brought up as a boy to become a fearless leader of men; and of cool-headed Qannasa, raiding from her mountain fortress to capture and seduce her enemies before putting them pitilessly to the sword. The Warrior Women of Islam puts a bold new complexion on gender roles and the wider perception of women in the Middle East.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857736493
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Colloquial Arabic storytelling is most commonly associated with The Thousandvand One Nights. But few people are aware of a much larger corpus of narrative texts known as popular epic. These heroic romantic tales, originating in the Middle Ages, form vast cycles of adventure stories whose most remarkable feature is their portrayal of powerful and memorable women. Wildly appreciated by medieval audiences, and spread by professional storytellers throughout the cities of the Muslim world, these fictions were printed and reprinted over the centuries and comprise a vital part of Arab culture. Yet virtually none are available in translation, and so remain almost unknown to a non-Arab public. Remke Kruk at last makes these neglected romances available to a Western audience. She recounts the story of Princess Dhat al-Himma, brave and undefeated leader of the Muslim army in its wars against the Byzantines; of Ghamra, brought up as a boy to become a fearless leader of men; and of cool-headed Qannasa, raiding from her mountain fortress to capture and seduce her enemies before putting them pitilessly to the sword. The Warrior Women of Islam puts a bold new complexion on gender roles and the wider perception of women in the Middle East.
The Arabian Epic: Volume 2, Analysis
Author: Malcolm Cameron Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521474498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The second volume analyses their contents and literary formulae.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521474498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The hero cycles of Arabic belong to the literary tradition of The Arabian Nights and can be seen as the popular epics of their civilisation. The second volume analyses their contents and literary formulae.
Greek Folk Poesy: Folk prose. The survival of paganism
Author: Lucy Mary Jane Garnett
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, Greek (Modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, Greek (Modern)
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Early Greek Epic Fragments I
Author: Christos Tsagalis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110532115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This book offers a new edition and comprehensive commentary of the extant fragments of genealogical and antiquarian epic dating to the archaic period (8th-6th cent. BC). By means of a detailed study of the multifaceted material pertaining to the remains of archaic Greek epic other than Homer, Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymns, it provides readers with a critical reassessment of the ancient evidence, allows access to new material hitherto unnoticed or scattered in various journals after the publication of the three standard editions now available to us, and offers a full-scale commentary of the extant fragments. This book fills a gap in the study of archaic Greek poetry, since it offers a guiding tool for the further exploration of Greek epic tradition in the archaic period and beyond.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110532115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This book offers a new edition and comprehensive commentary of the extant fragments of genealogical and antiquarian epic dating to the archaic period (8th-6th cent. BC). By means of a detailed study of the multifaceted material pertaining to the remains of archaic Greek epic other than Homer, Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymns, it provides readers with a critical reassessment of the ancient evidence, allows access to new material hitherto unnoticed or scattered in various journals after the publication of the three standard editions now available to us, and offers a full-scale commentary of the extant fragments. This book fills a gap in the study of archaic Greek poetry, since it offers a guiding tool for the further exploration of Greek epic tradition in the archaic period and beyond.