Perrault's Popular Tales
Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Author : Charles Perrault
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Author : Edward Steere
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3846049174
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Author :
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2006-12-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0822568012
A small but clever hare and a fierce leopard agree to share a house, but as the hare's family grows, he realizes that he must find a way to get rid of his bad-tempered neighbor.
Author : Barbara Knutson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761357912
The Guinea Fowl and Cow are best friends. Both of them keep an eye out for Lion. When Lion threatens, each must intervene to save the other. Beautiful watercolors transform this tale into a visual delight.
Author : Héli Chatelain
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Folk songs, Kimbundu
ISBN :
Author : James Roy King
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1992-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791408544
This guidebook to the Bright-Shadow World develops three closely related issues. The first is the position that fairytales and folktales are of value today because they encourage the growth of capabilities important in our postmodern world. Each of us, like the fairytale hero, sets out on his/her own quests, seeks his/her own identity, faces his/her own dilemmas with few resources but wit, imagination, and a certain power of improvisation. King develops the implications of this situation for such common fairytale problems as learning to read the world productively; navigating various kinds of edges; exploiting power sources; developing highly personal moral commitments; problem solving; and data collecting. The second concern of this book is with the development of a system for analyzing narrative structure. The formula offered here involves an examination of interactions among actors, physical settings, lines of force, and power sources as a narrative moves toward its denouement. This system facilitates the classifying, and contrasting of narratives, and illuminates the structure of both narrative and lived experience. Finally, this book is concerned with myth-making or world-making processes. It is shown that traditional narrative actually points to and delineates another dimension of existence (here called the Bright-Shadow World) that operates by rules of its own and may be penetrated by individuals from our ordinary world. Inferences about the Bright-Shadow World drawn from traditional narrative are described and evaluated.
Author : Marcel Van Spaandonck
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Swahili language
ISBN :
Author : Marta Munté Vidal
Publisher : Cuento de Luz
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8415619987
A wonderful tale inspired by an old Swahili legend, The Chicken and the Eagle will reveal an amazing secret, and Kuku and Mwewe will live in your imagination forever. Guided Reading Level: M, Lexile Level: 770L
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1839643102
Africa south of the Sahara is a land of wide-ranging traditions and varying cultures. Despite the diversity and the lack of early written records, the continent possesses a rich body of folk tales and legends that have been passed down through the strong custom of storytelling and which often share similar elements, characters and ideas between peoples. So this collection offers a hefty selection of legends and tales – stories of the gods, creation and origins, trickster exploits, animal fables and stories which entertain and edify – from ‘Obatala Creates Mankind’, from the Yoruba people of west Africa, to ‘The Girl Of The Early Race, Who Made Stars’, from the San people of southern Africa, all collected in a gorgeous gold-foiled and embossed hardback to treasure.
Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135948739
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.