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EMET und andere Geschichten

Ivana Šojat

EMET und andere Geschichten

Von der Wahrheit zum Tod durch das Wegwischen eines Buchstabens: Durch dieses Wortspiel im Hebräischen wird angedeutet, dass wir nichts als Staub sind und nur durch die Tatsachen zum Leben erweckt werden, da sich zwischen Wahrheit und Tod nur eine dünne Linie befindet. Alle Geschichten im Buch handeln von der Wahrheitssuche, denn ohne Wahrheit gibt es kein Leben, ohne sie sind wir hohl, erbärmlich und ungerecht. Die Titelgeschichte beschreibt den Kindesmissbrauch innerhalb der Familie, ein...

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Ivana Šojat

Crash Island

Elvira Bormann-Nassonowa

Crash Island

In Crash-Island geht es um zwei Frauen, die unabhängig voneinander ihre Geschichte erzählen. Sie kennen sich kaum, doch zwischen ihnen besteht eine magische Verbindung: Die eine, frisch gebackene Astrologin per Selbststudium, liest aus den Sternen, dass der anderen ein Zusammenbruch, ein Krach bevorsteht. Jede der beiden kennt nur ihren Teil der Geschichte, und die erzählten Puzzleteile – zwei persönliche Universen, gleichzeitig so unterschiedlich und einander so ähnlich – müssen vom Leser zu...

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Elvira Bormann-Nassonowa

Herrenfahrrad "Partizan"

Dragan Aleksić

Herrenfahrrad "Partizan"

In Serbien ist Dragan Aleksić eine bekannte Größe, er veröffentlichte über zehn Bücher in seiner Heimat. Mit dem Erzählband Herrenfahrrad Partizan erscheint nun auch für ein deutschsprachiges Publikum das vierte Buch. Darin spielt der Autor Karussell mit Zeitebenen, Szenen sowie mit der Eindringlichkeit seines Handwerks. Die Eingangsgeschichte im heutigen Texas spielt wie auch spätere Sequenzen mit seiner Liebe zum Film und der Freundschaft zwischen Peter Handke und Wim Wenders. Es sind jedoch...

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Dragan Aleksić

O Cidadão Anulado E Outras História...

Gift Foraine Amukoyo

O Cidadão Anulado E Outras Histórias

O Jornalista Cidadão – Frequentemente, nos esquecemos da força que os burocratas exercem sobre a mídia. O primeiro passo na direção do controle populacional é o controle da mídia. Isso concede às pessoas poder sobre a opinião pública. A corrupção nessas áreas está pior do que nunca. Essa história é extremamente relevante no que diz respeito à corrupção e à política atualmente nos Estados Unidos da América. Concordo com Kola: deveria haver apenas uma maneira de se divulgar notícia – relatando a...

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Gift Foraine Amukoyo

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusso...

Thorpe Benjamin

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson Translated from the Original Old Norse Text Into English

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Thorpe Benjamin

Efemena

Gift Foraine Amukoyo

Efemena

Aruegodore y su familia estaban en la aldea para el entierro de su difunto padre. Siendo el Okpako entre los hijos de su padre, Aruegodore fue informado de que Pa Onoharhese había abandonado el fantasma; murió como el hombre más viejo de toda la comunidad de Elume. Era una abominación para cualquiera oír hablar de su muerte antes de su primogénito. Aruegodore debe ser el primero en saber y dar su consentimiento para que la muerte de su padre sea generalmente anunciada. Aruegodore debía realizar...

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Gift Foraine Amukoyo

The Study of Imagination - Essays o...

Various

The Study of Imagination - Essays on Fairy Tales, Folk-Lore and Mythology

“The Study of Imagination” is a brand new collection of classic essays written by various authors on the subject of fairy tales, mythology, and folk-Lore. Contents include: “Fairy Tales, by G. K. Chesterton”, “The Fantastic Imagination, by George Macdonald”, “The Worth of Fairy Tales, by Laura F. Kready”, “Storyology, by Benjamin Taylor”, “A Harvest of Irish Folk-Lore, by John Fiske”, “On the Philosophy of Mythology, by F. Max Müller”, “Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, by William Henderson”,...

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Various

Architecture, Mysticism and Myth -...

W. R. Lethaby

Architecture, Mysticism and Myth - With Illustrations by the Author

First published in 1892, this vintage book looks at religious, mystical, and mythological influences on architecture throughout history and from all over the world, exploring in detail similarities, design, purpose, and much more. Profusely illustrated throughout, “Architecture, Mysticism and Myth” will appeal to those with an interest in religious architecture and would make for a worthy addition to any collection. Contents include: “The World Fabric”, “The Microcosmos”, “Four Square”, “At the...

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W. R. Lethaby

Sacred Mushrooms

Carl A. P. Ruck

Sacred Mushrooms

In the ancient world, men and women joined cults known as Mysteries to unite with the deities of the otherworld and achieve eternal life. The most important of the Mysteries existed for two millennia at the village of Eleusis. Its deities were Demeter and Persephone, interchangeable in their roles as mother and daughter. The initiations and other rituals of this goddess-based cult were a profound secret: divulging information was punishable by death. For centuries, scholars have probed the...

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Carl A. P. Ruck

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Gra...

James B Greenough

Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar

A venerable resource for more than a century, Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar is still regarded by students and teachers as the finest Latin reference grammar available. Concise, comprehensive, and well organized, it is unrivaled in depth and clarity, placing a wealth of advice on usage, vocabulary, diction, composition, and syntax within easy reach of Latin scholars at all levels. This sourcebook's three-part treatment starts with words and forms, covering parts of speech,...

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James B Greenough

Native American Mythology

Hartley Burr Alexander

Native American Mythology

This fascinating and informative compendium of Native American lore was assembled by one of twentieth-century America's premier ethnographer/anthropologists. Hartley Burr Alexander recounts the continent's myths chronologically and region-by-region, offering a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales.The stories begin in the far North, among Norsemen and Eskimos, and range through the land of...

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Hartley Burr Alexander

Vampires and Vampirism

Montague Summers

Vampires and Vampirism

Any investigation into vampire legends leads inevitably to the works of Montague Summers (1880–1948), whose research and writings in the 1920s established him as the subject’s preeminent authority. This study examines vampire lore in fantastic detail, constituting a record of folk beliefs unequaled in its sheer scope and depth. It features all the apparatus of an academic work, including footnotes and references to rare source documents, and it addresses such issues as how...

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Montague Summers

Great Norse, Celtic and Teutonic Le...

Wilhelm Wägner

Great Norse, Celtic and Teutonic Legends

Captivating collection of legends and romances encompasses the principal hero-lays of the great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages — Hegeling and Nibelung legends, Beowulf, Knights of the Round Table, the Rhine legend of Lohengrin, and many more. Inspiring reading, both in and out of the classroom.

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Wilhelm Wägner

Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists

Sister Nivedita

Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists

Great stories of the epics; deeds of Krishna, Shiva, taken from puranas, Vedas, folk tales, more. 32 illustrations.

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Sister Nivedita

Celtic Myth and Legend

Charles Squire

Celtic Myth and Legend

The legends of ancient Britain retain a profound allure for readers around the world, assuring a warm reception for this introduction to the colorful pageant of Celtic myth. Its wondrous tales range from the oft-told deeds of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table to the less-familiar adventures of the mighty Finn and his Fenians, Ulster's Champions of the Red Branch, and other figures from the Gaelic pantheon. Tracing the exploits of kings and saints back to their earliest origins, the...

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Charles Squire

The Nuosu Book of Origins

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The Nuosu Book of Origins

The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of the cosmos, the sky and earth, and the living beings of land and water. This translation is a rare example in English of Indigenous ethnic literature from China.Transmitted in oral and written forms for centuries among the Nuosu, The Book of...

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Virgil's Eclogues

Virgil

Virgil's Eclogues

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid , he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics , or Eclogues . The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising...

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Virgil

Fairy Godfather

Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Fairy Godfather

In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and...

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Ruth B. Bottigheimer

The Elegies of Maximianus

Maximianus

The Elegies of Maximianus

Not much can be known about the life of Maximianus, who has been called «the last of the Roman poets,» beyond what can be inferred from his poetry. He was most likely a native of Tuscany, probably lived until the middle of the sixth century, and, at an advanced age, went as a diplomat to the emperor's court at Constantinople. A. M. Juster has translated the complete elegies of Maximianus faithfully but not literally, resulting in texts that work beautifully as poetry in English....

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Maximianus

The Terror That Comes in the Night

David J. Hufford

The Terror That Comes in the Night

David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake). Sufferers report feeling suffocated, held down by some «force,» paralyzed, and extremely afraid. The experience is surprisingly common: the author estimates that approximately 15 percent of people undergo this event at some...

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David J. Hufford

Postmodern Fairy Tales

Cristina Bacchilega

Postmodern Fairy Tales

Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: «Snow White,» «Little Red Riding Hood,» «Beauty and the Beast,» and «Bluebeard.» Bacchilega traces the oral sources of each tale, offers a provocative interpretation of contemporary versions by Angela Carter, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme,...

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Cristina Bacchilega

New Age Capitalism

Kimberly J. Lau

New Age Capitalism

The pursuit of health and wellness has become a fundamental and familiar part of everyday life in America. We are surrounded by an enticing world of products, practices, and promotions assuring health and happiness—cereal boxes claim that their contents can reduce the risk of heart disease, bars of aromatherapy soap seek to wash away our stresses, newspapers celebrate the wonders of the latest superfoods and herbal remedies. No longer confined to the domain of Western medicine,...

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Kimberly J. Lau

Fairy Tales and Society

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Fairy Tales and Society

This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters and situations, to a far greater extent than any other oral or literary form. In many societies, fairy tales function as a paradigm both for understanding society and for developing individual...

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Restless Dead

Sarah Iles Johnston

Restless Dead

During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that...

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Sarah Iles Johnston

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