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  • A Companion to the Fairy Tale

    de Hilda R Ellis Davidson, James Riordan, Joyce Thomas, Mary Brockington, Neil Philip, Pat Schaefer, Patricia Lysaght, Reimund Kvideland, Robin Gwyndaf, Ruth Bottigheimer0, T A Shippey1, Anna Chaudhri3, Bengt Holbek4, David Blamires5, David Hunt6, Derek S Brewer7, Graham Anderson8 ...
    Introduction by Derek Brewer.The aim of this book is to discuss the characteristics of the traditional fairy tale in Europe and North America, and various theories of its development and interpretation. The book deals with the main collections - the Grimm brothers, Hans Andersen, Perrault and Afanes'ev - and with the development of tales in various regions of Europe, including Ireland, Wales, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

    de Michel de Montaigne ...
    The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which ... Leer más

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  • The Mabinogion

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and an intriguing interpretation of British history - these are just some of the themes embraced by the anonymous authors of the eleven tales that make up the Welsh medieval masterpiece known as the Mabinogion. They tell of Gwydion the shape-shifter, who can create a woman out of flowers; of Math the magician whose feet must lie in the lap of a virgin; of ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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  • Orpheus

    The Song of Life

    de Ann Wroe ...
    "[A] startlingly original history that traces the obscure origins and tangled relationships of the Orpheus myth from ancient times through today" ( Library Journal).For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet, and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing ... Leer más

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  • The Arabian Nights

    A Companion

    de Robert Irwin ...
    This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.The Arabian Nights has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriental literature, have a clear idea of when the book was written or what exactly it is.Far from ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    de Marina Warner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • The Transmission of "Beowulf"

    Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior

    de Leonard Neidorf ...
    Series series Myth and Poetics II
    The Transmission of "Beowulf" like The Iliad and The Odyssey**, is a foundational work of Western literature that originated in mysterious circumstances.** In The Transmission of Beowulf, Leonard Neidorf addresses philological questions that are fundamental to the study of the poem. Is Beowulf the product of unitary or composite authorship? How substantially did... ... Leer más

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  • Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition

    History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran

    de Dr Haila Manteghi ...
    Series series Library of Medieval Studies
    Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Aside from its penetration into every language of medieval Europe, the Alexander romance arguably had its greatest impact in the Persian language.Haila Manteghi here offers a complete survey of that deep tradition, ranging from analysis of classical ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination

    Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature

    de Robert Rix ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture
    This bookexamines the sustained interest in legends of the pagan and peripheral North, tracing and analyzing the use of an ‘out-of-Scandinavia’ legend (Scandinavia as an ancestral homeland) in a wide range of medieval texts from all over Europe, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon tradition. The pagan North was an imaginative region, which attracted a number of conflicting interpretations. To ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edición de Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Ghazali and the Poetics of Imagination

    de Ebrahim Moosa ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī, a Muslim jurist-theologian and polymath who lived from the mid-eleventh to the early twelfth century in present-day Iran, is a figure equivalent in stature to Maimonides in Judaism and Thomas Aquinas in Christianity. He is best known for his work in philosophy, ethics, law, and mysticism. In an engaged re-reading of the ideas of this preeminent Muslim thinker, Ebrahim Moosa ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650

    de Anna-Maria Hartmann ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their ... Leer más

    $104.99 USD