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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture

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By:"Audrey L. Becker","Kristin Noone","Donald E. Palumbo","C.W. Sullivan III"
Published on 2011-07-01 by McFarland

This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword Mythology Literature.

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Friday, July 6, 2018

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

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By:"Dr Jason Marc Harris"
Published on 2013-04-28 by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.

This Book was ranked 38 by Google Books for keyword Folk Tales Literature.

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The Vampire in Folklore, History, Literature, Film and Television

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By:"J. Gordon Melton","Alysa Hornick"
Published on 2015-09-23 by McFarland

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and the Twilight Saga--are well represented.

This Book was ranked 14 by Google Books for keyword History Literature.

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Monday, May 28, 2018

The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature

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By:"Carolyn S. Brown"
Published on 1989 by Univ. of Tennessee Press

To Carolyn Brown s mind, the tall tale is not necessarily an account of the adventures of a larger-than-life hero, nor is it just a humorous first-person narrative exaggerated to outlandish proportions. It is as well an interaction between teller and audience a game played at the hazy border between the credible and the incredible, a challenge and an entertainment at the same time. The tall tale is also a social statement that identifies and binds a folk group by flaunting the peculiar knowledge and experiences of group members, and it is a tool for coping with a stressful or even chaotic world, for conquering life s problems by laughing at them.