Home - Books - Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webbe DasentWith a memoir by Arthur Irwin Dasent This page contains affiliate links. As Amazon Associates we earn from qualifying purchases. Writer: Sir George Webbe Dasent Language: English Form: Genre: Published: 1903 Edition:...
London: Vintage Books. INTRODUCTION: DESTABILIZING GENDER 25 Coates, Jennifer, Lucy Fraser, and Mark Pendleton, eds. 2019. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Popular Culture. London: Routledge. Craig, Tim. 2000. Introduction. In Japan Pop: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture...
Upon the ground are the merchandise, day-books and ledgers of legitimate commerce, crushed under the chariot of Folly. Behind is an immense crowd of persons, of all ages, sexes, and conditions, clamoring after Fortune, and fighting with each other to get a portion of the shares which she ...
The hand of the hanged man had other powers beyond the curative. The tradition of the ‘hand of glory’ is well known in folk stories (Fig.8.1). Shane McCorristine gives a version of the tale as follows, though there are numerous variants known as ballads or collected by folklorists in...
volumeHaunted Ohioseries. She is also the chronicler of the adventures of that amiable murderess Mrs Daffodil inA Spot of Bother: Four Macabre Tales. The books are available in paperback and for Kindle. Indexes and fact sheets for all of these books may be found by searching hauntedohiobooks....
Each child had all he wanted. It would have done you good to see their poor, pinched faces beam with delight. During the meal a large throng of orphan children in the gallery sung some sweet songs. Then, after the feast, there were small gifts, and little speeches and prayers, and mor...
As well as being known for traditional artistic forms, Castro Pacheco illustrated several children’s books and produced works in sculpture. He is more popularly known for his murals that invoke the spirit and history of the Mexican people. His works evoke a unique use of color and form....
You begin with a small black silk and talk about the dark Irish tale of Stingy Jack, who tricked and upset the Devil. The Devil kept his word not to claim Jack's soul, but would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his...
Archive #38 – Books on Learning Taiwanese Hokkien A Realistic Retelling of Journey to the West? Archive #37 – The 13th-Century Version of Journey to the West My Great Sage Monkey King Statue from Thailand What is the Oldest Known Media of Sun Wukong the Monkey King? Does the Buddha...
My point here is that although I can see that one`s childhood reading can engender stereotypes, we perhaps need not always try to be perfectly politically correct in censoring such books – just ensure a balance is always available in terms of creating lasting human values. As some of you ...