Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales

 
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales
Free Download Allyssa McCabe, "Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales "
English | ISBN: 1666912883 | 2022 | 200 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales is a multidisciplinary examination of folktales that are unfamiliar to Western audiences. Examining folktales from countries like Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea, the contributors consider various aspects: including identity issues, morals, collectivism, violence, scatological references, language socialization, representation of Buddhist values, emotional competence, as well as folktales' relationship to idioms and narrative structure. Highlighting differences and similarities between East and Southeast Asian and Western folktales, this volume promotes memorable understanding of East and Southeast Asian cultures and their oral traditions.


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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths [Audiobook]

 
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths [Audiobook]
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BVGQHNXL | 2023 | 16 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 472 MB
Author: William Hansen
Narrator: Kristin Atherton
The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories-from myths and fairy tales to jokes. Captured centaurs and satyrs, incompetent seers, people who suddenly change sex, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives. Together they created an incredibly rich body of popular oral stories that include, but range well beyond, mythology-from heroic legends, fairy tales, and fables to ghost stories, urban legends, and jokes. This unique anthology presents the largest collection of these tales ever assembled. Featuring nearly four hundred stories in authoritative and highly enjoyable translations, this is the first book to offer a representative selection of the entire range of traditional classical storytelling. This one-of-a-kind anthology will delight general listeners as well as students of classics, fairy tales, and folklore.


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Moroccan Folktales

 
Moroccan Folktales
Jilali Koudia, "Moroccan Folktales "
English | ISBN: 0815611013 | 2018 | 196 pages | EPUB | 866 KB
Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savored, studied, or simply treasured. Varied genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to European counterparts, for example Aamar and his Sister (Hansel and Gretel) and Nunja and the White Dove (Cinderella). All capture the heart of Morroco and the soul of its people. In an enlightening introduction, El Koudia mourns the loss of the teller of tales in the marketplace, and he makes it clear that storytelling, born of memory and oral tradition, could vanish in the face of mass and electronic media.


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