Folktales Told Around the World
Title | Folktales Told Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 661 |
Release | 2016-05-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 022637534X |
All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.
Folktales Told Around the World
Title | Folktales Told Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 660 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226158748 |
Authentic field-recorded texts of over one hundred tales recited by story-tellers from forty-six cultures around the world, collected as a representative sampling of the world's folk traditions.
Folktales Told Around the World
Title | Folktales Told Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 622 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN | 9780226158723 |
All the selections in Richard M. Dorson's Folktales Told around the World were recorded by expert collectors, and the majority of them are published here for the first time. The tales presented are told in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania. Unlike other collections derived in large part from literary texts, this volume meets the criteria of professional folklorists in assembling only authentic examples of folktales as they were orally told. Background information, notes on the narrators, and scholarly commentaries are provided to establish the folkloric character of the tales.
Folktales Told Around the World
Title | Folktales Told Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
All the World's Reward
Title | All the World's Reward PDF eBook |
Author | Reimund Kvideland |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2011-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0295800631 |
All the World’s Reward presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their world. Some preferred jocular stories and others wonder tales; some performed mostly for adults, others for children; some used storytelling to criticize society, and others spun wish fulfillment tales to find relief from a harsh reality. For the most part collected a century ago, the stories were gleaned from archives and printed sources; the Icelandic repertoire was collected on audiotape in the 1960s. Each repertoire was selected by a noted folklorist. Introductions to the storytellers and collectors and commentaries and references for the tales are provided. A general introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and an index of the tales according to Aarne-Thompson’s typology are also included. Period illustrations add charm to the stories.
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
Title | Favorite Folktales from Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Yolen |
Publisher | Pantheon |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2014-05-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0804152861 |
From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages. With black-and-white drawings throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
Folk Tales Told Around the World
Title | Folk Tales Told Around the World PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Pasamanick |
Publisher | Silver Burdett Press |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780382243639 |
Presents a collection of folk tales, including trickster tales, noodleheads, origin myths, fables, fairy tales, and stories that pose problems for the reader to solve.