Best of all, organizing the tales by theme and by tale type encourages students to make innovative and original connections. It is a fabulous introduction to the primary texts and to some of the central debates in the field. Barbara Karasek has retired from teaching and lives in Montreal. Sign up for updates on new titles in your teaching areas and other news from the press.
Messages are sent every other month or so. You can unsubscribe at any time. Folk and Fairy Tales — Fifth Edition. Print Eurospan. Modal title. Subscribe To Our Newsletter Name. If all music, as star trumpeter Louis Armstrong believed, is folk music, then all culture is folk culture. And if that is correct, this book is for us all. Its purpose is to give brief historical explanations and examples where needed of all kinds of folk cultures, with contexts of their importance in the lives of cultures around the world.
Much of the material being endemic in our everyday cultures is familiar. Much, however, is new: additional explanations and examples, and at times, corrections to accepted understanding of items of historical value. Ashliman's page on Aesop, for example, changes the understanding of who Aesop if he ever existed as single individual really was—his life and career, and importance to us today.
Many other entries shade our understanding into different directions. As a result, this is a book that needs to be handy for all scholars of books and of life. It will enrich our lives by making everyday aspects more everyday.
Ashliman, one of folklore's finer scholars, is to be congratulated on his excellent book. The Journal of American Culture — Wiley. Continue with Facebook. Sign up with Google. Log in with Microsoft. Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library. Sign Up Log In. Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote.
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