Storytelling Encyclopedia

Historical, Cultural, and Multiethnic Approaches to Oral Traditions Around the World
Herausgeber: Leeming, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is an A to Z collection of over 700 entries covering such major storytelling elements as motifs, character types, tale types, place names, and creation mythologies and storytelling techniques of cultures around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1212g
• ISBN-13: 9781573560252
• ISBN-10: 1573560251
• Artikelnr.: 21216373

Autorenporträt

DAVID ADAMS LEEMING is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where he has taught since 1969. He held the position of Lycee English Head at Robert College, Istanbul, from 1961 to 1963 and again from 1966 to 1969. Leeming is the author of Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero and The World of Myth. He is also the coauthor of several works, including God: Myths of the Male Divine, Dictionary of Creation Myths, Encyclopedia of Creation Myths, and Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine and the forthcoming Mythology of Native North America. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from Princeton University and a master's degree and a Ph.D. from New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTRIBUTORS vii PREFACE ix PART ONE Once Upon a Time David Adams Leeming 3
Building Bridges with Stories Melissa Heckler and Carol Birch 8 American
Oral Tradition Emory Elliott and Jackie Stallcup 16 The Utopian Tendency of
Storytelling: Turning the World Upside Down Jack Zipes 27 PART TWO A-Z
Entries 35 Selected Bibliography 509 Index 519