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By: Reimund Kvideland
ISBN: 9780816619672
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1991
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: David Leeming
ISBN: 9781780239774
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In Sex in the World of Myth, David Leeming argues that sex is as important in myths as it is in our lives.
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By: douard Laboulaye
ISBN: 9780691181868
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Laboulaye, one of 19th-century France's most prominent politicians and an instrumental figure in establishing the Statue of Liberty, was also a prolific writer of fairy tales. This volume brings together new translations of 16 of his most wry, political stories that continue to impart lessons today.
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By: Lowell Edmunds
ISBN: 9780691165127
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed
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By: David Conrad
ISBN: 9781624664953
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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David Conrad's new prose translation of the Sunjata epic highlights the narrative aspect of the epicwhile conveying the essential performative quality of his 2004 verse translation. A revised Introduction, a glossary of Maninka terms, a guide to major characters, and maps provide further assistance tofirst-time readers of the epic.
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By: David Conrad
ISBN: 9781624664946
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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David Conrad's new prose translation of the Sunjata epic highlights the narrative aspect of the epicwhile conveying the essential performative quality of his 2004 verse translation. A revised Introduction, a glossary of Maninka terms, a guide to major characters, and maps provide further assistance tofirst-time readers of the epic.
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By: Lone Thygesen Blecher
ISBN: 9780816645756
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: John Colarusso
ISBN: 9780691170404
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John Matthews
ISBN: 9781904658429
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Aeon Books Ltd
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The myths and legends of King Arthur and his knights, of the enchanter Merlin, and of their quests and adventures, form one of the greatest cycles of stories. This book explores some of the most important tales. It also includes a series of meditational exercise to help the reader find his or her way to the heart of the Arthurian mysteries.
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By: William Hansen
ISBN: 9780691170152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Michael Judge
ISBN: 9781611455113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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Three streams of history created the Western calendar - from the East beginning with the Sumerians, from the Celtic and Germanic peoples in the North, and again from the East, this time from Palestine with the rise of Christianity. The author teases out the contributions of each stream.
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By: Martin Arnold
ISBN: 9781780238975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The Dragon traces the history of ideas about dragons and asks what exactly it might be in our imaginations that appears to have necessitated such a creature for thousands of years.
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By: Jack Zipes
ISBN: 9781624660320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: Jack Zipes
ISBN: 9781624660337
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: Natalie Frank
ISBN: 9780691180243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David Hunt
ISBN: 9780863564734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Saqi Books
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An incomparable collection, Legends of the Caucasus conveys the poetry and romance of these swiftly vanishing tribes.
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By: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
ISBN: 9781517905248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Mary Grant Bruce
ISBN: 9781513134635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: West Margin Press
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By: Mary Grant Bruce
ISBN: 9781513295916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Mint Editions
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By: Bai She Zhuan English 2009
ISBN: 9780872209954
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake the admirable demon who loves her victim has been continually rewritten, reinterpreted, and readapted for over five hundred years. This title opens a window into the variety of pre-modern Chinese popular literature.
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By: Bai She Zhuan English 2009
ISBN: 9780872209961
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake the admirable demon who loves her victim has been continually rewritten, reinterpreted, and readapted for over five hundred years. This title opens a window into the variety of pre-modern Chinese popular literature.
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By: Vladimir Propp
ISBN: 9780816611829
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1984
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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By: Margot Adler
ISBN: 9781578635603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
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By: J.M. Dixon
ISBN: 9781578634491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
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A handbook not only to mythical and historical legends, but also to the modern vampire, their community, and the science behind modern vampire feeding. It includes a glossary of who's who in the vampire world and top vampire terms.
