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Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429779003 |
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This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Snow White, The Frog Prince and a host of others where the similarities to familiar ‘modern’ versions far outweigh the differences. Here we find Cinderella as a courtesan, Snow White coming to a tragic end or an innocent heroine murdering her sisters. We find an emperor’s new clothes where the flatterers compare him to Alexander the Great, or a pair of adulterers caught in a magic trap. Tantalising fragments suggest that there is more to be discovered: we can point to a Sleeping Beauty where the girl takes on the green colouring of the surrounding wood, or we encounter a Rumpelstiltskin connected to a mystery cult. The overall picture suggests a much richer texture of popular tale as a fascinating new legacy of antiquity. This volume breaks down the traditional barriers between Classical Mythology and the fairy tale, and will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on the history of fairy tales and folklore.
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : 9781138361799 |
Download Ancient Fairy and Folk Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This anthology explores the multitude of evidence for recognisable fairy tales drawn from sources in the much older cultures of the ancient world, appearing much earlier than the 17th century where awareness of most fairy tales tends to begin. It presents versions of Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes, Snow White, The Frog Prince and a host of others where the similarities to familiar 'modern' versions far outweigh the differences. Here we find Cinderella as a courtesan, Snow White coming to a tragic end or an innocent heroine murdering her sisters. We find an emperor's new clothes where the flatterers compare him to Alexander the Great, or a pair of adulterers caught in a magic trap. Tantalising fragments suggest that there is more to be discovered: we can point to a Sleeping Beauty where the girl takes on the green colouring of the surrounding wood, or we encounter a Rumpelstiltskin connected to a mystery cult. The overall picture suggests a much richer texture of popular tale as a fascinating new legacy of antiquity. This volume breaks down the traditional barriers between Classical Mythology and the fairy tale, and will be an invaluable resource for anyone working on the history of fairy tales and folklore.
Author | : Sudhin N. Ghose |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0486292479 |
Download Folk Tales and Fairy Stories from India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
16 delightful tradition stories, including "Palwahn the Wrestler," "How Princess Maya got her Deserts," "The Munificent Miser," "The End of the World," and 12 other traditional tales.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : Folk literature, Irish |
ISBN | : 9781435161368 |
Download Treasury of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Enjoy more than 200 tales from the Emerald Isle, colourful stories of the fairy folk in all their guises, along with changelings, banshees, leprechauns, the headless dullahan, the merrow and the ever-mischievous pooka. In addition, this collection includes ghosts, witches and fairy doctors, priests and saints, encounters with the devil, titans of Ireland's historical past and popular treasure legends.
Author | : Sophie Segur |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429011866 |
Download Old French Fairy Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 1920 collection includes five timeless French fairy tales written by Comtesse De Segur and illustrated by the 19 year old Virginia Sterrett.
Author | : William Hansen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0691195927 |
Download The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first anthology to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories- from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes.
Author | : Graham Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2002-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113456046X |
Download Fairytale in the Ancient World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including: * a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella * a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis * a Pied Piper at Troy. He puts forward many previously unsuspected candidates as classical variants of the modern fairytale and argues that the degree of violence and cruelty in the ancient tales means they must have been meant for adults.
Author | : Anon E. Mouse |
Publisher | : Abela Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2017-01-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1909302856 |
Download FOLKLORE and FAIRY TALES from BURMA Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 21 colourful Burmese folk tales in this volume have been retold in English by teachers from the Phaung Daw Oo Monastic Education High School, Mandalay, Myanmar, formerly Burma. Accompanying the stories are 22 illustrations created by their young pupils. Herein you will find stories like THE CROW IS AS PROUD AS THE PEACOCK , THE THREE SISTERS, THE BLIND BOY, SHIN MWE LON AND MIN NANDA, THE GREEDY KING, A DISRESPECTFUL DAUGHTER and many more. Herein you will find stories like The Crow Is As Proud As The Peacock , The Three Sisters, The Blind Boy, Shin Mwe Lon And Min Nanda, The Greedy King, A Disrespectful Daughter and many more. As with most folk tales with Eastern origins, the stories have deeper meanings hidden beneath what, on the surface, may appear to be a simple story. The morals in these Burmese tales often reoccur in the tales from other cultures’. Such universal themes include traditional family values and respect, still very much to the fore in a country that to a great extent has stood still in time. 55% of the net profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the Phaung Daw Oo Monastic Education High School, Mandalay to assist with teaching materials. These funds will assist the inspired school founders, Ven. U Nayaka and Ven. U Jotika, who, to date, have helped many underprivileged children benefit from a high standard of education.
Author | : Henry Glassie |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2012-09-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307828247 |
Download Irish Folk Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic stories of kings, ghosts, fairies, treasures, enchanted nature, and witchcraft are set in cities, villages, fields, and forests from the wild western coast to the modern streets of Dublin and Belfast. Edited by Henry Glassie With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fairy tales |
ISBN | : 9781566197656 |
Download My Book of Old-time Fairy Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
My book of Old-Time Fairy Tales invites readers into a magical world filled with heroes and heroines, elves and fairies, princes and orges. These seventeen stories will delight both children and adults.