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American Folklore
By: Brunvand, Jan (ed.)
Published by: Taylor & Francis
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
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Price: $66.00
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American Regional Folklore
By: Mood-Leopold, Terry Ann
Published by: ABC-CLIO
A guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and an annotated bibliography. It covers library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy.
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Price: $105.00
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Animals, Gods and Humans
By: Gilhus, Ingvild Slid
Published by: Routledge
Consulting a range of key texts and source material, this book covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought. Of interest to classicists, it examines the dominant themes and developments in the conception of animals.
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Price: $35.95
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Antigone
By: Sophocles
Published by: Oxford University Press (US)
Echoing through western culture for more than two millennia, Sophocles' play has been a touchstone of thinking about human conflict and human tragedy, the role of the divine in human life, and the degree to which men and women are the creators of their own destiny. This translation of the Antigone is both extremely faithful to the Greek.
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Price: $27.00
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Aphrodite and Eros
By: Breitenberger, Barbara
Published by: Routledge
This book offers a groundbreaking revision of the popular image of Aphrodite and Eros that lives on in Roman poetry (Venus and Cupid) and has inspired artists for centuries.
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Price: $65.00
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Apollo
By: Graf, Fritz
Published by: Routledge
From his first attestations in Homer, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world.
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Price: $30.95
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Aradia: Gospel of the Witches
By: LeLand, Charles
Published by: NuVision Publications, LLC
This book has been considered a missing link between ancient and modern witchcraft. ARADIA not only inspired Gerald Fardner, Doreen Valiente and other founders of neopagan witchcraft of the twentieth century, it also continues to serve as a reference and inspiration for others.
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Price: $3.99
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Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature
By: Garry, Jane; El-Shamy, Hasan
Published by: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
A presentation and discussion of the most basic thematic elements universally found in folklore and literature. The reference provides a detailed analysis of the most common archetypes or motifs found in the folklore of selected communities around the world.. Entries are keyed to the ''Motif-Index of Folk Literature'' by Stith Thompson.
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Price: $128.00
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Arthurian Bibliography IV
By: Barber, Elaine (ed.)
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
With the appearance in 1999 of the very extensive interim volume covering the years 1978 to 1992, the Arthurian Bibliography became once more the critical source for Arthurian Scholars. This fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA , covers the years 1993 to 1998 inclusive.
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Price: $140.00
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Arthurian Literature XVIII
By: Busby, Keith (ed.)
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
This volume of Arthurian Literature continues the tradition of the journal, combining critical studies with editions of primary Arthurian texts. Varied in their linguistic and chronological coverage, the articles deal with major areas of Arthurian studies, from early French romance through late medieval English chronicle to contemporary fiction. Topics include Béroul's Tristan, Tristan de Nanteuil, the Anglo-Norman Brut, and the Morte, while an edition of the text of an extrait of Chrétien's Erec et Enide prepared by the eighteenth-century scholar La Curne de Sainte-Palaye offers important insights into both scholarship on Chrétien, and our understanding of the Enlightenment.
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Price: $85.00
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