Folklore & Mythology

This book focuses on the cultural politics of magical realism, as exemplified in the fiction of Syl Cheney-Coker, Ben Okri and Kojo Laing and contextualizes their fiction within current debate. more...

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The setting is the Big Island of Hawaii. With its active volcano and its frequent earthquakes, it has long been the subject of Polynesian legends. And, at the core of the legends, are the tales told of the alii, the Polynesian nobility, who possessed a strange power making them invulnerable to attack. Lehua Watanabe, investigative reporter for the Kona News, suddenly acquires this mysterious force. more...

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A cycle of thirteen episodes told in Story Theater form, a narrator speaking and life-sized puppets performing simultaneously, METAMORPHOSES tells the stories from Greek mythology—from the first moments of creation to its version of the flood, and the trials, tribulations, and joys during Zeus’s long reign. It brings to life some of the most memorable episodes and characters in that saga: the Titans, the Cyclops, Zeus himself, Echo and Narcissus, Cupid and Psyche, Theseus, Orpheus and Eurydice, and many more. more...

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CRUSADERS AND SARACENS AGAINST THE DJINN! It's the Third Crusade, King Godwin of England, and his loyal knight, Richard the Lion-heart battle against the Saracens for possession of the Holy City. That's the beginning of this uproarious, rousing lost fantasy epic out of print for over half a century. When Goodwin meets Ramizail, descendant of Solomon, .. more...

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Andrew Von Hendy offers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity. He takes as its starting point some crucial moments in the 18th-century reinvention of the concept and then follows the major branches of theorizing as they appear in the work of theologians, philosophers, literary artists, political thinkers, folklorists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others. more...

Price: $31.95