The Scottish Fairy Book
Title | The Scottish Fairy Book PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Wilson Grierson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Fairy tales |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Title | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe PDF eBook |
Author | C.S. Lewis |
Publisher | Wyatt North Publishing, LLC |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Fiction |
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C. S. Lewis was a British author, lay theologian, and contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia.
Man and His Symbols
Title | Man and His Symbols PDF eBook |
Author | Carl G. Jung |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307800555 |
The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Title | The Book of Imaginary Beings PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Animals, Mythical |
ISBN | 0099442639 |
As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition-The compilation and translation of this volume have given us a great deal of such pleasure; we hope the reader will share some of the fun we felt when ransacking the
Fairy Tale Films
Title | Fairy Tale Films PDF eBook |
Author | Pauline Greenhill |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2010-08-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0874217822 |
This ISBN refers to the ebook edition of this text, available directly from the publisher. It has erroneously been listed as paperback by some online vendors. The true paperback edition is indeed available at online vendors. Paste this ISBN into the search box: 9780874217810. In this, the first collection of essays to address the development of fairy tale film as a genre, Pauline Greenhill and Sidney Eve Matrix stress, "the mirror of fairy-tale film reflects not so much what its audience members actually are but how they see themselves and their potential to develop (or, likewise, to regress)." As Jack Zipes says further in the foreword, “Folk and fairy tales pervade our lives constantly through television soap operas and commercials, in comic books and cartoons, in school plays and storytelling performances, in our superstitions and prayers for miracles, and in our dreams and daydreams. The artistic re-creations of fairy-tale plots and characters in film—the parodies, the aesthetic experimentation, and the mixing of genres to engender new insights into art and life— mirror possibilities of estranging ourselves from designated roles, along with the conventional patterns of the classical tales.” Here, scholars from film, folklore, and cultural studies move discussion beyond the well-known Disney movies to the many other filmic adaptations of fairy tales and to the widespread use of fairy tale tropes, themes, and motifs in cinema.
Medieval Art
Title | Medieval Art PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Byron Norris |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1588390837 |
This educational resource packet covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium, as represented by objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the contents of this resource are: an overview of medieval art and the period; a collection of aspects of medieval life, including knighthood, monasticism, pilgrimage, and pleasures and pastimes; information on materials and techniques medieval artists used; maps; a timeline; a bibliography; and a selection of useful resources, including a list of significant collections of medieval art in the U.S. and Canada and a guide to relevant Web sites. Tote box includes a binder book containing background information, lesson plans, timeline, glossary, bibliography, suggested additional resources, and 35 slides, as well as two posters and a 2 CD-ROMs.
The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones
Title | The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones PDF eBook |
Author | Isidore Kozminsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Charms |
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