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  • Folklore Concepts

    Histories and Critiques

    by Dan Ben-Amos ...
    By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sparking lively debate ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Diary

    The Epic of Everyday Life

    Edited by Batsheva Ben-Amos, Dan Ben-Amos ...
    The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • In Praise of Baal Shem Tov (Shivhei Ha-Besht

    the Earliest Collection of Legends About the Founder of Hasidism)

    by Dan Ben-Amos ...
    In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov is the first complete English translation of the tales surrounding the Besht, a rabbi and kabbalistic practitioner whose teachings bolstered the growing Hasidic movement in the eighteenth century. An important source on the life, philosophy, and mystical works of the Besht, In Praise of the Baal Shem Tov also reveals the daily life and concerns of eastern European ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Folklore Concepts

    Histories and Critiques

    by Dan Ben-Amos ...
    By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sparking lively debate ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The First Book of Jewish Jokes

    The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal

    Edited by Elliott Oring ...
    Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions develop? In this groundbreaking study and translation, noted humor and folklore scholar Elliott Oring introduces us to the joke collections of Lippmann Moses Büschenthal, an enlightened rabbi, and an unknown author writing as "Judas Ascher. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Folklore Genres

    Edited by Dan Ben-Amos ...
    Series series American Folklore Society Bibliographical and Special Series
    The essays in Folklore Genres represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions. The study as a whole is concerned with the concept of genre and with the history of genre theory. A selective bibliography provides a guide to analytical and theoretical works on the topic.The literary-oriented articles conceive of folklore forms, not as ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Reading World Literature

    Theory, History, Practice

    Edited by Sarah Lawall ...
    As teachers and readers expand the canon of world literature to include writers whose voices traditionally have been silenced by the dominant culture, fundamental questions arise. What do we mean by "world"? What constitutes "literature"? Who should decide?Reading World Literature is a cumulative study of the concept and evolving practices of "world literature." Sarah Lawall opens the book with a ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis

    How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Doppelganger

    Literature's Philosophy

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Fairy Tale

    by Andrew Teverson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This volume offers a comprehensive critical and theoretical introduction to the genre of the fairy tale. It:explores the ways in which folklorists have defined the genreassesses the various methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of fairy taleprovides a detailed account of the historical development of the fairy tale as a literary formengages with the major ideological controversies ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Gods & Games

    Toward a Theology of Play

    by David L. Miller ...
    A deeply thoughtful, deeply irreverent look at the mythology of play, Gods and Games ties together Joseph Campbell's approach to myth and religion with Johan Huizinga's view of our species as Homo ludens — "Man the Game-player" — suggesting that play is a central aspect of the human spirit and human culture."A comprehensive and clear review.... loaded with quotations both pertinent and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno

    Something or Nothing

    by Natalie Leeder ...
    Series series Founding Critical Theory
    Since his notorious 1961 lecture, 'Trying to Understand Endgame', Theodor W. Adorno's name has been frequently coupled with that of Samuel Beckett. This book offers a radical reappraisal of the intellectual affinities between these two figures, whose paths crossed all too fleetingly. Specifically the book argues for a preoccupation with the concept of freedom in Beckett's works - one which ... Read more

    $28.19 USD