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Dieser Titel aus dem De Gruyter-Verlagsarchiv ist digitalisiert worden, um ihn der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Da der Titel erstmals im Nationalsozialismus publiziert wurde, ist er in besonderem Maße in seinem historischen Kontext zu betrachten. Mehr erfahren Sie hier. This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more ref=https://www.degruyter.com/page/2052›here.
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Dieser Titel aus dem De Gruyter-Verlagsarchiv ist digitalisiert worden, um ihn der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Da der Titel erstmals im Nationalsozialismus publiziert wurde, ist er in besonderem Maße in seinem historischen Kontext zu betrachten. Mehr erfahren Sie hier. This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more ref=https://www.degruyter.com/page/2052›here.
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In Storytelling in Bali , Hildred Geertz makes a case for the importance of the role of informal storytelling as an engine of social change in Bali in the 1930s. This is a study of more than 200 texts dictated by the painters of the village of Batuan in 1936 to the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. It is completed by three years field work in Batuan in the 1980s. The tales reveal a set of strong ambivalences about the magical powers of kings, priests and sorcerers, and about social strains within villages and families. These narratives were related in the daily settings of home and coffee shop and also in the spectacular dance-dramas of the time.
Tales --- Storytelling --- Legends --- Folklore
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Ce dictionnaire recense les êtres fantastiques (fées, dragons, lutins...) auxquels nos ancêtres croyaient et qui ont nourri notre folklore de contes et de légendes, mais aussi les hantises (spectres, revenants...) et les lieux enchantés (ponts, fontaines, menhirs...). Si ce corpus merveilleux couvre l'ensemble du territoire, les particularités régionales sont importantes : on trouvera donc un article générique Fée, mais autant d'articles selon leur dénomination et caractéristiques régionales : Fade, Fayette, Beuffenie, Blanquette, Dame verte, Lamigna, Margot-la-Fée...
Supernatural --- Fairies --- Legends --- Animals, Mythical --- Folklore --- Apparitions
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The Grail is one of the most enduring literary motifs in publishing history. In spite of an ever-changing world, the reading public has maintained a fascination for this enigmatic object, as well as the various adventures and characters associated with it. But the nature and reception of the Grail have not remained static. Thanks to the fact that the first known author of a Grail story, Chrétien de Troyes, died c.1180-90 before completing his tale and revealing the meaning of the Grail, authors and publishers across history have reimagined, reinterpreted and re-packaged Grail literature so as to appeal to the developing tastes and interests of their target audiences. This book analyses the developing publication practices associated with French Grail literature in medieval and Renaissance France. Arguing for pre-print book production as constituting an early incarnation of a publishing trade, it discusses such matters as the disclosure of authorship and patronage, and the writing and formatting of blurbs, as well as tactics of compilation as production techniques that bear evidence of common commercial motivations between pre- and post-print publication. The distinctive investigation of manuscript and early-print evidence brings medieval and early-modern publishers and their concepts of both product and market into focus. Leah Tether is Reader in Medieval Literature and Digital Cultures, and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol. She is the author of The Continuations of Chrétien's Perceval: Content and Construction, Extension and Ending (D.S. Brewer, 2012).
Grail --- French literature --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- rench literature
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Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil's Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil's heroic epic.
Ascanius (Legendary character) --- Iulus (Legendary character) --- Legends --- In literature. --- Virgil.
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The main goal of this book is to produce a methodologically sound and ethically valid interdisciplinary introduction into the exciting world of ancient Mesoamerica.
Indian mythology --- Legends --- Indians of South America --- Religion --- Colombia.
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Il volume propone l’edizione critica della Navigatio sancti Brendani, uno dei più straordinari testi narrativi del Medioevo latino, con prolegomeni completi (descrizione estesa dei manoscritti, giustificazione della ricostruzione stemmatica e di tutte le scelte di emendatio e selectio) e con apparato critico integrale. La scelta di mettere a disposizione e discutere l?intera documentazione su cui si sono fondati lo studio della tradizione e la constitutio textus risponde a due obiettivi: da un lato, è intesa a rendere trasparente ai lettori dell’edizione il processo ecdotico che vi è sotteso, a partire dal lungo lavoro di Giovanni Orlandi fino al completamento da parte di Rossana Guglielmetti; dall’altro, vuole offrire agli studiosi della fortuna dell’opera, anche al di fuori del perimetro latino, tutte le coordinate testuali utili a collocare ogni episodio di trasmissione indiretta del racconto in rapporto alla Navigatio ‘originale’. Questa editio maior porta a coronamento la ricerca che ha trovato già espressione nell’edizione pubblicata nel 2014 Navigatio sancti Brendani. Alla scoperta dei segreti meravigliosi del mondo (Per Verba 30), dove il testo è presentato con traduzione, commento e un’ampia introduzione storico-letteraria, che qui non si sono ripetuti.
Brendan, --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani. --- Christian saints --- Navigatio Sancti Brendani --- Legends --- Christian saints - Ireland - Legends --- Brandanus ab. Clonfertensis --- Navigatio --- Brendan, - Saint, the Voyager, - ca. 483-577 - Legends --- Brendan, - Saint, the Voyager, - ca. 483-577
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In the chaos that followed the death of Alexander the Great his distinguished marshal Seleucus was reduced to a fugitive, with only a horse to his name. But by the time of his own death, Seceucus had reconstructed the bulk of Alexander's empire, built Antioch, and become a king in his turn, one respected for justness in an age of cruelty. The dynasty he founded was to endure for three centuries. Such achievements richly deserved to be projected into legend, and so they were. This legend told of Seleucus' divine siring by Apollo, his escape from Babylon with an enchanted talisman, his foundations of cities along a dragon-river with the help of Zeus' eagles, his surrender of his new wife to his besotted son, and his revenge, as a ghost, upon his assassin. This is the first book in any language devoted to the reconstruction of this fascinating tradition.
HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- Literature. --- Seleucus --- Legends. --- In literature. --- History / ancient / general. --- Seleukos
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