Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries
Author: Hardpress
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2013-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781314437867


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Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1864
Genre: Questions and answers
ISBN:


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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 912
Release: 1861
Genre:
ISBN:


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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum
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Total Pages: 856
Release: 1902
Genre: England
ISBN:


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Folklore and Book Culture

Folklore and Book Culture
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 172523646X


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To many observers, folklore and book culture may appear to be opposites. Folklore, after all, involves orally circulated stories and traditions while book culture is concerned with the transmission of written texts. However, as Kevin J. Hayes points out, there are many instances where the two intersect, and exploring those intersections is the purpose of this fascinating and provocative study. Hayes shows that the acquisition of knowledge and the ownership of books have not displaced folklore but instead have given rise to new beliefs and superstitions. Some books have generated new proverbs; others have fostered their own legends. Occasionally the book has served as an important motif in folklore, and in one folk genre--the flyleaf rhyme--the book itself has become the place where folklore occurs, thus indicating a lively interaction between folk, print, and manuscript culture. The author begins by examining the tradition of the Volksbucher--cheaply printed books, often concerned with the occult, whose powers are said to transcend the written text. Hayes looks in depth at one particular Volksbuch--The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses--and proceeds, in subsequent chapters, to discuss a variety of folktales and legends, placing them within the context of book culture and the history of education. He closes with an examination of flyleaf rhymes, the little verses that book owners have inscribed in their books, and considers what they reveal about the identity of the inscribers as well as about attitudes toward book lending, book borrowing, and the circulation of knowledge. Solidly researched and venturing into areas long neglected by scholars. Folklore and Book Culture is a work that will engage not only folklorists but historians and literary scholars as well.

Notes and Queries

Notes and Queries
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Total Pages: 648
Release: 1852
Genre: Electronic journals
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The Hindus

The Hindus
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 808
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781594202056


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An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms to consider history as a whole.