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Five Great Greek Tragedies

Euripides

Five Great Greek Tragedies

This remarkably low-priced anthology brings together five of the greatest, most studied, and most performed Greek tragedies, each in an outstanding translation:• Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), in which the much-admired playwright explores the individual's search for truth and self-knowledge• Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), favorites with modern audiences for their psychological subtlety and the...

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Folklore Concepts

Dan Ben-Amos

Folklore Concepts

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 that often centers on why his definition intrinsically acknowledges tradition rather...

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Dan Ben-Amos

Folklore Concepts

Dan Ben-Amos

Folklore Concepts

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Dan Ben-Amos

From Storeroom to Stage

Alexandra Urdea

From Storeroom to Stage

Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.

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Alexandra Urdea

From Trickster to Badman

John W. Roberts

From Trickster to Badman

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John W. Roberts

Garland of the Buddha's Past Lives...

Aryashura

Garland of the Buddha's Past Lives (Volume 2)

In this second volume of the Garland of Past Lives , Aryashura applies his elegant literary skill toward composing fourteen further stories that depict the Buddha’s quest for enlightenment in his former lives. Here the perfection of forbearance becomes the dominant theme, as the future Buddha suffers mutilations from the wicked and sacrifices himself for those he seeks to save. Friendship, too, takes on central significance, with greed leading to treachery and enemies transformed into friends...

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Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives...

Aryashura

Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives (Volume 1)

The Garland of Past Lives is a collection of thirty four stories depicting the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths. Composed in the fourth century C.E. by the Buddhist monk Aryashura, the text’s accomplished artistry led Indian aesthetic theorists to praise its elegant mixture of verse and prose. The twenty stories in this first volume deal primarily with the virtues of giving and morality. Ascetics sacrifice their lives for hungry tigers, kings open their veins...

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Gentlemen and Amazons

Cynthia Eller

Gentlemen and Amazons

Gentlemen and Amazons traces the nineteenth-century genesis and development of an important contemporary myth about human origins: that of an original prehistoric matriarchy. Cynthia Eller explores the intellectual history of the myth, which arose from male scholars who mostly wanted to vindicate the patriarchal family model as a higher stage of human development. Eller tells the stories these men told, analyzes the gendered assumptions they made, and provides the necessary context for...

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Cynthia Eller

Gita Govinda

Jayadeva

Gita Govinda

Jayadeva’s Gitagovínda is a lyrical account of the illicit springtime love affair of Krishna and Radha, a god and goddess manifesting on earth as a cowherd and milkmaid for the sake of relishing the sweet miseries and rapturous delights of erotic love. The narrative framing their bucolic songs was composed under royal patronage in northeastern India in the twelfth century. It was to be performed for connoisseurs of poetry and the erotic arts, for aesthetes and voluptuaries who, while sensually...

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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

Hairy, Scary, but Mostly Merry Fair...

Renee Simmons Raney

Hairy, Scary, but Mostly Merry Fairies!

Author Renee Simmons Raney believes that every child deserves his or her own personal landscape in which to seek adventure and unleash creativity. Through this charming storybook, Renee weaves fairy stories, enhancing the natural world with supernatural creatures, and connecting children to diverse habitats, creatures, seasons, and holidays while inspiring a sense of place, a land conservation ethic, and a comfortable fearlessness for outdoor exploration. Hairy, Scary, but Mostly Merry Fairies!...

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Renee Simmons Raney

Handsome Nanda

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Handsome Nanda

Nanda has it all: youth, money, good looks and a kittenish wife who fulfills his sexual and emotional needs. He also has the Buddha, a dispassionate man of immense insight and self-containment, for an older brother. When Nanda is made a reluctant recruit to the Buddha's order of monks, he is forced to confront his all-too-human enslavement to his erotic and romantic desires. Dating from the second century CE, Ashva·ghosha’s Handsome Nanda portrays its hero’s...

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Hero with a Thousand Faces

Campbell Joseph

Hero with a Thousand Faces

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Campbell Joseph

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

Homo Narrans

John D. Niles

Homo Narrans

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John D. Niles

How the Nagas Were Pleased by Harsh...

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How the Nagas Were Pleased by Harsha & The Shattered Thighs by Bhasa

Two tragic plays that break the rules: both show the hero dying on stage, a scenario forbidden in Sanskrit dramaturgy. King Harsha's play, composed in the seventh century, re-examines the Buddhist tale of a magician prince who makes the ultimate sacrifice to save a hostage snake ( naga ). The Shattered Thighs , attributed to Bhasa, the illustrious predecessor to ancient Kali·dasa, transforms a crucial episode of the Maha·bhárata war. As he dies from a foul blow to the legs delivered in...

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Hunters, Predators and Prey

Frédéric Laugrand

Hunters, Predators and Prey

Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit , a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion...

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Frédéric Laugrand

Iliad

Homer

Iliad

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Homer

Japanese Theatre in Highlight

Francis Haar

Japanese Theatre in Highlight

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Francis Haar

Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories

Kathryn Tucker Windham

Jeffrey's Favorite 13 Ghost Stories

This is the first anthology of the author’s own favorite ghost stories from the highly successful Jeffrey series of books that began in 1969 with “13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.” Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sold. The present volume includes 13 of the best of Mrs. Windham’s stories, representing mysterious and supernatural doings from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Most of the stories are related to historical places and sometimes to historical people.

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Kathryn Tucker Windham