Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

The 'Writers on...' series is a collection of extracts, anecdotes, quotations and occasional philosophical musings from the world's most influential authors. It celebrates writers who have an individual, creative outlook on the world; on subjects from 'drink' to 'death', and 'love' to 'libraries'. Starting with ancient civilisations and moving towards the present day, this collection of intellectual and often humorous reflections provides a fascinating insight into a vast array of topics. What all these issues have in common though, is that in some way they have all enthused, influenced,...

The 'Writers on...' series is a collection of extracts, anecdotes, quotations and occasional philosophical musings from the world's most influential authors. It celebrates writers who have an individual, creative outlook on the world; on subjects from 'drink' to 'death', and 'love' to 'libraries'. Starting with ancient civilisations and moving towards the present day, this collection of intellectual and often humorous reflections provides a fascinating insight into a vast array of topics. What all these issues have in common though, is that in some way they have all enthused, influenced,...

Von R. W. Brednich, Hauptherausgeber der Enzyklopadie des Marchens und Bestsellerautor sagenhafter Geschichten, werden hier 26 kulturhistorische Studien vorgelegt, die sich speziell unter medialen Gesichtspunkten der europaischen Lied-, Erzahl- und Bilduberlieferung von der fruhen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart widmen. Als exemplarische Uberlieferungsgeschichten spiegeln sie facettenreich Traditionsfelder und Tradierungsprozesse der Alltagskultur.

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 comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of the Iliad became...