LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan dundes

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  • Bloody Mary in the Mirror
    Alan Dundes
    Seven ways in which psychoanalysis illuminates folkloreBloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and explores various folklore genres to see what new light psychoanalysis can shed on folklore techniques and forms. In seven fascinating essays, folklorist Alan Dundes applies psychoanalytic theory to illuminate such genres as legend (in the vampire tale), folktal...
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    50,49 €

  • Shabbat Elevator and other Sabbath Subterfuges
    Alan Dundes
    This book focuses on the topic of ’circumventing custom’ with special emphasis on the ingenious ways Orthodox (and other) Jews have devised to avoid breaking the extensive list of activities forbidden on the Sabbath. After examining the sources of Sabbath observance as set forth in the Old Testament, the New Testament, and rabbinical writings, some of the most salient forms of ...
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    64,49 €

  • Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing
    Alan Dundes / Carl R. Pagter / Carl RPagter
    Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing documents the thriving folklore tradition that circulates in the workplace. Alan Dundes and Carl Pagter have collected more than two hundred and fifty "signs of the times"—the office memoranda, parodies, cartoons, and poems that daily make their way through copy machines, interoffice mail systems, and fax machines and are affixed to bulletin boa...
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    37,68 €

  • Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder
    Alan Dundes
    Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder was first published in 1984 and from the outset inspired a wide variety of reactions ranging from high praise to utter disgust. Alan Dundes' theses identifies a strong anal erotic element in German national character, citing numerous examples of scatological data from authentic compilations of German folklore. The examination of this singl...
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    38,54 €

  • Holy Writ as Oral Lit
    Alan Dundes
    With great reverence for the Bible, Dundes offers a new and exciting way to resolve some of the mysteries and contradictions that evolved during the Bible’s pre-written legacy and that still persist today. Using his expert knowledge of folklore, Dundes unearths and contrasts multiple versions of nearly every major biblical event, including the creation of woman, the flood, the ...
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    130,93 €

  • Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow
    Alan Dundes
    This provocative book by a leading folklorist offers a new analysis of caste in India, focusing on the rationale underlying the customs surrounding untouchability. Drawing on clues contained in two fascinating folktales, Alan Dundes goes beyond Dumont’s classic Homo Hierarchicus in deconstructing the pervasive pollution complex that prevents millions of individuals from enterin...
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    57,43 €

  • Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
    Alan Dundes
    Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience—Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ra...
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    48,29 €

  • In Quest of the Hero
    Alan Dundes / Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan / Otto Rank
    In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank’s Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan’s The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes’s fascinating contemporary inquiry, 'The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus.' Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or leg...
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    44,53 €

  • When You’re Up to Your Ass in Alligators
    Alan Dundes
    Office copier folklore—those tattered sheets of cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, parodies, and crude jokes that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere—is the subject of this innovative study. this type of folklore represents a major form of tradition in modern America, and the authors have compiled this raw data for scholarship—and entertainment. Thes...
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    31,42 €