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A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Autor: Pasquale De Marco

Número de Páginas: 179

Embark on a literary pilgrimage with "A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," your essential companion to Chaucer's enduring masterpiece. This comprehensive guide unlocks the secrets of Chaucer's storytelling, providing a deeper understanding and appreciation of his work. Journey through the tales, guided by our expert analysis and engaging commentary. Discover the intricacies of Chaucer's storytelling techniques, his masterful use of language, and the historical and cultural context that shaped his work. Delve into the tales told by a colorful cast of pilgrims, each with their own unique voice and perspective. Explore themes of love, loyalty, deceit, and redemption, all woven together by Chaucer's keen observation of human nature. Uncover the hidden meanings and symbolism embedded within Chaucer's words, shedding light on the social, political, and religious issues of his time. Examine the literary devices and techniques that Chaucer employed to create such a rich and compelling narrative. "A Pilgrim's Guide to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" is an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and general readers alike. Whether you are seeking to deepen your understanding...

The Lansdowne ms (no. 851) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales

Autor: Geoffrey Chaucer , Chaucer Society (london, England)

Número de Páginas: 804

Includes: Drawings of the 23 tellers of the 24 Canterbury tales, copied from the Ellesmere ms. and cut on wood by Mr. W. H. Hooper.

Dragon Fairy Tales

Autor: Lizzie Stoddart

Número de Páginas: 207

Soar the skies with fire-breathing beasts, explore the mythological lands of Ancient Greece, and brandish your sword with Saint George in this illustrated collection of dragon tales from around the world. 'Come not between the dragon, and his wrath.’ ― William Shakespeare, King Lear, 1606 From the monstrous winged dragon of English folklore to the sacred wind-blowing beasts of China, this brilliant collection draws on a wide variety of sources from all corners of the globe. Discover far-flung stories of fierce fights, cunning trickery, brave knights, and kindly monsters. Including stunning black-and-white illustrations, this treasury features classic tales such as ‘St. George of Merrie England’, ‘The Dragon and His Grandmother’, ‘The King of the Fishes’, and ‘How the Red Knight Slew the Dragon’. With works from the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Joseph Jacobs, Giambattista Basile, and Asbjørnsen and Moe, Dragon Fairy Tales features the original stories of some of the most well-known writers of fairy tale literature. The perfect book of adventure for all ages, this blazing anthology of dragon tales will transport you to an age where winged beasts and...

Tales and Translation

Autor: Cay Dollerup

Número de Páginas: 402

Dealing with the most translated work of German literature, the Tales of the brothers Grimm (1812-1815), this book discusses their history, notably in relation to Denmark and subsequently other nations from 1816 to 1986. The Danish intelligentsia responded enthusiastically to the tales and some were immediately translated into Danish by a nobleman and by the foremost Romantic poet. Their renditions remained in print for a century and embued the tales with high prestige. This book discusses translators, approaches, and other parameters such as copyright, and changes in target audiences. The tales’ social acceptability inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write his celebrated fairytales. Combined, the Grimm and Andersen tales came to constitute the ‘international fairytale’.This genre was born in processes of translation and, today, it is rooted more firmly in the world of translation than in national literatures. This book thus addresses issues of interest to literary, cross-cultural studies and translation.

Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands)

Autor: Dan Ben Amos

Número de Páginas: 873

Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is...

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

Autor: Jack Zipes

Número de Páginas: 283

The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows in this classic work, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture. How and why did certain authors try to influence children or social images of children? How were fairy tales shaped by the changes in European society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Zipes examines famous writers of fairy tales such as Charles Perrault, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and L.Frank Baum and considers the extraordinary impact of Walt Disney on the genre as a fairy tale filmmaker.

Postmodern Fairy Tales

Autor: Cristina Bacchilega

Número de Páginas: 228

This book offers a historicizing perspective on the question of gender in fairy tales, focusing on past and present versions of four classic stories in order to analyze their varying representations of women.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Autor: Library Of Congress

Número de Páginas: 1992

Why Fairy Tales Stick

Autor: Jack Zipes

Número de Páginas: 350

In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales "stick." Long an advocate of the fairy tale as a serious genre with wide social and cultural ramifications, Jack Zipes here makes his strongest case for the idea of the fairy tale not just as a collection of stories for children but a profoundly important genre. Why Fairy Tales Stick contains two chapters on the history and theory of the genre, followed by case studies of famous tales (including Cinderella, Snow White, and Bluebeard), followed by a summary chapter on the problematic nature of traditional storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Telling Tales

Autor: Patience Agbabi

Número de Páginas: 97

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix From below-the-belt base to the topnotch; I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch when the tales overrun, run offensive, or run clean out of steam, they're authentic and we're keeping it real, reminisce this: Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business. In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style. Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Autor: Geoffrey Chaucer

Número de Páginas: 294

Tales From Manger Inn

Autor: Dawn, Indigo, Johanna Vandenberg

Número de Páginas: 167

The Classic Fairy Tales (Second International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)

Autor: Maria Tatar

Número de Páginas: 256

“I have used this textbook for four courses on children’s literature with enrollments of over ninety students. It is without doubt the most well organized selection of literary fairy tales and critical commentaries currently available. Students love it.” —Lita Barrie, California State University, Los Angeles This Norton Critical Edition includes: · Seven different tale types: “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Snow White,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Cinderella,” “Bluebeard,” and “Tricksters.” These groupings include multicultural versions, literary rescriptings, and introductions and annotations by Maria Tatar. · Tales by Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. · More than fifteen critical essays exploring the various aspects of fairy tales. New to the Second Edition are interpretations by Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Max Lüthi, Lewis Hyde, Jessica Tiffin, and Hans-Jörg Uther. · A revised and updated Selected Bibliography.

Tall Tales, Grades 2 - 5

Autor: Debra Olson Pressnall

Número de Páginas: 66

11 Leveled Stories to Read Together for Gaining Fluency & Comprehension

Tales of the Secret City

Autor: Manal Elkady

Número de Páginas: 118

The novel is speaking about the archeologist Fhd, who spent his childhood at the oasis and was taught archeology by Aschraf Azaam. He met Habeba, an American lady with Egyptian roots, who possessed a map left to her by her grandfather. He discovered symbols which denoted that AbdelRahman, the grandpa of Habeba, wrote messages for his offspring on the walls of the oasis caves. But that wasnt all. What Fhd didnt state to Habeba is that the map denoted also the presence of a secret city near the oasis. Through the sequence of events, he was able to reach that city, where he met people coming from different cultures, who narrated for him their tales, revealing the unity between mankind, yet Fhd started to search for an exit as he felt that the city was beyond him. Everyone was narrating his story, but he couldnt do the same. He wanted to keep his pains and secrets within his heart, so would he find an exit? The answer is inside.

Fairy Tales with a Black Consciousness

Autor: Vivian Yenika-agbaw , Ruth Mckoy Lowery , Laretta Henderson

Número de Páginas: 245

The all new essays in this book discuss black cultural retellings of traditional, European fairy tales. The representation of black protagonists in such tales helps to shape children's ideas about themselves and the world beyond--which can ignite a will to read books representing diverse characters. The need for a multicultural text set which includes the multiplicity of cultures within the black diaspora is discussed. The tales referenced in the text are rich in perspective: they are Aesop's fables, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Ananse. Readers will see that stories from black perspectives adhere to the dictates of traditional literary conventions while still steeped in literary traditions traceable to Africa or the diaspora.

The Canterbury Tales, with an Essay on His Language and Versification (etc.)

Autor: Geoffrey Chaucer

Número de Páginas: 370

Victorian Fairy Tales

Autor: Michael Newton

Número de Páginas: 455

The Victorian fascination with fairyland is reflected in the literature of the period, which includes some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central to the nineteenth-century canon such as Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Ford Madox Ford, and Rudyard Kipling wrote fairy tales, and authors primarily famous for their work in the genre include George MacDonald, Juliana Ewing, Mary De Morgan, and Andrew Lang. This anthology brings together fourteen of the best stories, by these and other outstanding practitioners, to show the vibrancy and variety of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. The stories in this selection range from pure whimsy and romance to witty satire and darker, uncanny mystery. Paradox proves central to a form offered equally to children and adults. Fairyland is a dynamic and beguiling place, one that permits the most striking explorations of gender, suffering, love, family, and the travails of identity. Michael Newton's introduction and notes explore the literary marketplace in which these tales appeared, as well as the role they played in contemporary debates on ...

Lucy and Christian Wainwright, and Other Tales

Autor: Lucy Wainwright , Author Of Aggesden Vicarage

Número de Páginas: 366

Folk Tales from Kammu - VI

Autor: Kristina Lindell , Jan-Öjvind Swahn , Damrong Tayanin

Número de Páginas: 196

This book examines the tales of a Kammu folklore teller from the North Eastern Muan Khwa region of Laos. It contains 19 stories, all annotated from both cultural and folklore aspects and illustrated by a young Kammu artist, and including one story given in the original language with an interlinear translation.

Russian Tales of Clever Fools: Complete Russian Folktale: v. 7

Autor: Jack V. Haney

Número de Páginas: 301

This is the concluding installment of a splendid multi-volume work that makes available to English readers a rich folktale tradition that has not been easily accessible or well-known in the West. Compared to other European traditions, the East Slavs have an extremely large number of tale types. Using the Aarne-Thompson index to folktale types, and drawing on both archival and written sources dating back to the early sixteenth century, J.V. Haney has assembled and translated examples of the full range of tales. Nearly all of these tales appear here in translation for the first time. The tales in this volume center on the so-called fool, the village simpleton. However, Ivan, the Russian everyman, turns out to have far more sense than his would-be oppressors. The greedy priests and landlords and dim-witted demons who try to take advantage of him are easily outsmarted. In the end it is they who are shown to be the fools as Ivan outwits or outlasts them. In these unequal contests lies the pleasure of the tales.

The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems - Geoffrey Chaucer

Autor: Geoffrey Chaucer

Número de Páginas: 1170

THE object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces — The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen; to do so in a way that will render their "popular perusal" easy in a time of little leisure and unbounded temptations to intellectual languor; and, on the same conditions, to present a liberal and fairly representative selection from the less important and familiar poems of Chaucer and Spenser. There is, it may be said at the outset, peculiar advantage and propriety in placing the two poets side by side in the manner now attempted for the first time. Although two centuries divide them, yet Spenser is the direct and really the immediate successor to the poetical inheritance of Chaucer. Those two hundred years, eventful as they were, produced no poet at all worthy to take up the mantle that fell from Chaucer's shoulders; and Spenser does not need his affected archaisms, nor his frequent and reverent appeals to "Dan Geffrey," to vindicate for himself a place very close to his great predecessor in the literary history of England. If Chaucer is the "Well of English undefiled," Spenser is the broad and stately river that yet holds the tenure of ...

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

Autor: Merriam-webster, Inc

Número de Páginas: 1260

Describes authors, works, and literary terms from all eras and all parts of the world.

The Fairy Tale

Autor: Steven Swann Jones

Número de Páginas: 180

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The house of fame:The legend of good women: The treatise on the astrolabe: with an account of the sources of the Canterbury tales.[v. 4] The Canterbury tales: text

Autor: Geoffrey Chaucer

Número de Páginas: 612

Tales from the Cloud Walking Country

Autor: Marie Campbell

Número de Páginas: 276

Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Swans. "The Fellow That Married A Dozen Times" is a lively rendition of "Bluebeard." As the narrators cautioned Marie Campbell again and again, "Tale-telling is nigh about faded out in the mountain country," but Tales from the Cloud Walking Country offers a lasting record of history, cultural heritage, language, and good old-fashioned fun.

Tales of the Gypsy Dressmaker

Autor: Thelma Madine

Número de Páginas: 301

Thelma Madine, star of Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and fairy godmother of extravagant wedding dresses, reveals the drama, secrets and surprises involved in ten incredible traveller weddings.

Long, Long Tales from the Russian North

Autor: Jack V. Haney

Número de Páginas: 329

A record of remarkable folk narratives told over successive nights on vessels or in camps in remote Karelia

Teaching Guide for Books 17-28

Número de Páginas: 94

Margaret Atwood

Autor: Shannon Hengen , Ashley Thomson

Número de Páginas: 455

Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin. Rather than just including Atwood's books, this guide includes all of Atwood's works, including articles, short stories, letters, and individual poetry. Adaptations of Atwood's works are also included, as are some of her more public quotations. Secondary entries (i.e. interviews, scholarly resources, and reviews) are first sorted by type, and then arranged alphabetically by author, to allow greater ease of navigation. The individual chapters are organized chronologically, with each subdivided into seven categories: Atwood's Works, Adaptations, Quotations, Interviews, Scholarly Resources, Reviews of Atwood's Works, and Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood's Works. The book also includes a chapter entitled "Atwood on the Web," as well as extensive author and subject indexes. This new bibliography significantly enhances access to Atwood material, a feature that will be welcomed by university, public,...

Geoffrey Chaucer

Autor: David Wallace

Número de Páginas: 128

Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the character and sheer inventiveness of Chaucer's work. At the time Chaucer's writings were not just literary adventures, but also a means of convincing the world that poetry and science, tragedy and astrology, could all be explored through the English language. French was still England's aristocratic language of choice when Chaucer was born; Latin was used for university education, theological discussion, and for burying the dead. Could a hybrid tongue such as English ever generate great writing to compare with French and Latin? Chaucer, miraculously, believed that it could, through gradual expansion of expressiveness and scientific precision. He was never paid to do this; he was valued, rather, as a capable civil servant, regulating the export of wool and the building of seating for royal tournaments. Such experiences, however, fed his writing, leading him to achieve a range of social registers, from noble tragedy to...

South Asian Folklore

Autor: Peter Claus , Sarah Diamond , Margaret Mills

Número de Páginas: 741

With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts. A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora communities. This unique reference will be invaluable for collections serving students, scholars, and the general public.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Autor: Library Of Congress. Cataloging Policy And Support Office

Número de Páginas: 1662

Researches Respecting the Book of Sindibad

Autor: Domenico Comparetti

Número de Páginas: 326

On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer: On the pronunciation of the XIVth, XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth centuries

Autor: Alexander John Ellis

Número de Páginas: 442

The Lansdowne Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Autor: Geoffrey Chaucer

Número de Páginas: 774

Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Autor: Mark Twain

Número de Páginas: 449

These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,' to the parodic perfection of 'An Awful - Terrible Medieval Romance,' to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of 'Early Days' to the bitter, brooding tone of 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' to the anti-imperial vehemence of 'To the Person Sitting in the Darkness' and the poignant grief expressed in 'Death of Jean', Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts...

Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)

Autor: St Thomas Aquinas

Número de Páginas: 640

"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (1225 1274), widely considered the Catholic Church s greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinas s masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume III, Aquinas addresses: faith and heresy charity peace and war mercy, anger, and justice prayer truth and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

Longfellow's poetical works

Autor: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Número de Páginas: 648