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Folklore & Mythology eBooks
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Mythical Journeys, Legendary Quests
By: Caldecott, Moyra
Published by: Mushroom Publishing
The spiritual search... traditional stories from world mythology retold and explained by Moyra Caldecott.
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Price: $5.99
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American Regional Folklore
By: Mood-Leopold, Terry Ann
Published by: ABC-CLIO
A guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and an annotated bibliography. It covers library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy.
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Price: $105.00
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Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature
By: Garry, Jane; El-Shamy, Hasan
Published by: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
A presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world.. Entries are keyed to the ''Motif-Index of Folk Literature'' by Stith Thompson.
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Price: $128.00
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Arthur, King of Britons
By: Mersey, Daniel
Published by: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
King Arthur, probably the most popular of British kings and one whose name is synonymous with courage, chivalry and romanticism.
Arthur, King of the Britons, Arthur the medieval legend, Arthur the Celtic warlord, Arthur of the pre-Raphaelites and Arthur of the movies… would the real King Arthur please stand up? Daniel Mersey explores the many faces, myths and theories surrounding this famous king.
A modern biography and a history, this book is a thoroughly entertaining and eye-opening depiction of the multiple King Arthur.
Published to tie in with the Disney’s feature film on King Arthur.
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Price: $17.99
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Arthurian Bibliography IV
By: Barber, Elaine (ed.)
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
With the appearance in 1999 of the very extensive interim volume covering the years 1978 to 1992, the Arthurian Bibliography became once more the critical source for Arthurian Scholars. This fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA , covers the years 1993 to 1998 inclusive.
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Price: $140.00
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Artificial Mythologies
By: Saper, Craig J.; Kipnis, Laura
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
In this exhilarating guide, Craig J. Saper takes us on an eye-opening tour of the process of cultural invention—willfully entertaining foolish, absurd, even fake, solutions as a way of reaching new perspectives on cultural problems. Saper deploys this method to reveal unsuspected connections among major cultural issues, such as urban decay, the dangers of television’s power, family values, and conservative criticism of higher education.
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Price: $66.00
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Atlantis Destroyed
By: Castleden, Rodney
Published by: Routledge
Fired by the imagination a new vision of Atlantis has arisen over the last one hundred and fifty years as a lost utopia. Rodney Castleden discusses why this picture arose and explains how it has become confused with Plato's genuine account.
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Price: $37.95
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Born in a Mighty Bad Land
By: Bryant, Jerry H.
Published by: Indiana University Press
The figure of the violent man in the African American imagination has a long history. He can be found in 19th-century bad man ballads like 'Stagolee' and 'John Hardy,' as well as in the black convict recitations that influenced 'gansta' rap. Born in a Mighty Bad Land connects this figure with similar characters in African American fiction.
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Butterfly Mother
By: Bender, Mark; Dan, Jin; Xueliang, Ma
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Butterfly Mother is a collection of epic songs from the rich oral tradition of the Miao (Hmong) people of southwest China. These poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of a world in which everything is alive, and listeners find that besides mountains, rivers, trees, and creatures, inanimate objects are also 'born' and have spirits.
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A Chinese Bestiary
By: Strassberg, Richard E.
Published by: University of California Press
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine.
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