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Chinese literature --- S16/0475 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Popular literature (incl. fairy tales, legends) --- 18.86 Chinese language and literature. --- Fairy tale

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The book consists of two parts. The first one focuses on the personality of Hans Christian Andersen, the originality of his works and its preconditions. The author concentrates on Andersens autobiographies pointing out the peculiarities of Andersen‘s character, the expression of his sexuality and belief in God, also, investigates small prose from the standpoint of genre specifics, analyses the component of simple speaking as poetic strategy and inquires into the correlation of small prose and the tradition of folklore. The second part of the book focuses on Andersen‘s works from the standpoint of comparative science relating them to the works of modern Scandinavian writers, also, the works of Lithuanian writers, especially those written on the verge of 19th – 20th c., besides, it reveals Andersen‘s impact on the development of Lithuanian literary fairy tale and artistic expression in the works meant for adults.

Botanists --- Political activists --- Vailionis, Liudas, --- Comparative science --- Autobiography --- Perception of Andersen‘s works in Lithuania --- Specific features of small genres --- Folk and literary fairy tale --- Ethics of creative works

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"In 1976 John Raven caused a stir in the University of Cambridge when he began his Gray Lectures on Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece, with a devastating reappraisal of long-accepted identifications of ancient names for modern plants. He soon ranged to wider questions of classical botany, in myth, medicine and illustration, from the plants of Homer and Sappho, to Theophrastus and Theocritus, Hippocrates and Dioscorides. He examined Minoan art and the tulips of modern Crete. In a tour-de-force, he sought the very pool on Cos, where fair Hylas was snatched by waternymphs, to the dismay of Heracles. John Raven's four Gray Lectures are presented here with another he gave in Oxford in 1971, which is illustrated with photographs by Faith Raven. These lectures display John Raven's sprightly scholarship and lifetime's intimacy with Greek plants on the ground. His themes are discussed and expanded in the light of recent research by distinguished botanical and classical scholars: Dr William Stearn and Professors Nicholas Jardine and Peter Warren. Two related papers (one unpublished) by Alice Lindsell, a pioneer in the field, are included, and extracts from her exquisite Botanical Sketchbook, made in Greece in 1930-31, are published among the abundant colour plates."--BOOK JACKET.

Plants --- Botany --- Folklore --- Greek World --- Fairy Tale --- Folktale --- Fairy Tales --- Folklores --- Folktales --- Plant --- Plant Proteins --- Ethnopharmacology --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Plant lore --- Ethnobotany --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- History --- history

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"Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world."--Publisher's website.

Transmission of texts --- Fairy tales --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Grimm, Wilhelm, --- Grimm, Jacob, --- Literature --- Literary Studies: General --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General --- Literary studies: general --- Golden Bird. --- Jack and the Beanstalk. --- Magician and His Pupil. --- The Sky High Tree. --- conglomerate tale. --- fairy tales. --- nineteenth century folklorists. --- occult knowledge. --- post-Grimm fairy tale. --- shamanistic World Tree. --- tale-type index. --- tales of magic.

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Folklore --- Medicine, Traditional --- essays --- history --- Folklore. --- Medicine, magic, mystic, and spagiric --- Traditional medicine --- -Traditional medicine --- -Ethnic medicine --- Ethnomedicine --- Folk medicine --- Home cures --- Home medicine --- Home remedies --- Indigenous medicine --- Medical folklore --- Medicine, Primitive --- Primitive medicine --- Surgery, Primitive --- Alternative medicine --- Medical anthropology --- Ethnopharmacology --- Magic medicine --- Medicine, Mystic --- Medicine, Occult --- Medicine, Spagiric --- Mystic medicine --- Occult medicine --- Spagiric medicine --- Spagyric medicine --- Alchemy --- Magic --- Superstition --- Folklores --- history. --- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric. --- Traditional medicine. --- Essays. --- History --- -history. --- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric --- Ethnic medicine --- essays. --- Fairy Tale --- Folktale --- Fairy Tales --- Folktales