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Product Description: In this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry...read more

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9781138941038 | Routledge, June 30, 2015, cover price $170.00 | About this edition: In this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry.
9780874513875 | Univ Pr of New England, June 1, 1987, cover price $35.00

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9780385611008 | Transworld Pub, September 11, 2008, cover price $32.45

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9780804169035, titled "The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld With Helpful Hints from Planet Earth" | Rep upd edition (Anchor Books, March 25, 2014), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as its often intensely political aspect and its preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority. These issues are dramatically displayed in Soviet epic compositions of the 1930s and 1940s, the so-called noviny (“new songs”), which took their formal inspiration largely from traditional Russian epic songs, byliny (“songs of the past”), and their narrative content from contemporary, political, and other events in Stalinist Russia...read more

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9781611494563 | Univ of Delaware Pr, August 15, 2013, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Soviet Heroic Poetry in Context discusses key issues surrounding the composition and recording of folklore as well as its often intensely political aspect and its preoccupation with chimerical cultural authority.

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Product Description: Focusing on recent developments in the area of seismic wave propagation and scattering, this text combines information from numerous sources to present a coherent introduction to the theory of scattering in acoustic and elastic materials...read more

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9780387983295 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 1997, cover price $99.00

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9781461274575 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, July 27, 2012), cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Focusing on recent developments in the area of seismic wave propagation and scattering, this text combines information from numerous sources to present a coherent introduction to the theory of scattering in acoustic and elastic materials.
9780044409373, titled "Lost Children: Separation and Loss Between Children and Parents" | Rivers Oram Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $22.01 | also contains Lost Children: Separation and Loss Between Children and Parents

Miscellaneous:

9780313007033, titled "Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston" | Greenwood Pub Group, July 1, 2001, cover price $43.95 | also contains Student Companion to Zora Neale Hurston

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By P. C. Cast (editor)

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9781935618553, titled "Nyx in the House of Night: Mythology, Folklore, and Religion in the P.C. and Kristin Cast Vampyre Series" | Benbella Books, June 7, 2011, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: Russian popular culture and folklore were a central theme in Dostoevsky's work, and folklore imagery permeates his fiction. Dostoevsky and the Russian People is a comprehensive study of the people and folklore in his art. Linda Ivanits investigates the integration of Dostoevsky's religious ideas and his use of folklore in his major fiction...read more

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9780521188753 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 3, 2011), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Russian popular culture and folklore were a central theme in Dostoevsky's work, and folklore imagery permeates his fiction.

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By Deborah Plant (editor)

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9780313365171, titled "The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston" | Praeger Pub Text, May 20, 2010, cover price $49.00

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Product Description: Students of Beowulf have usually agreed either that the poem’s minor episodes are more or less records of incidents in Scandinavian history or at least that they entail nothing of the fabulous or monstrous. Beowulf and the Illusion of History, however, argues that just as in the main episodes of the poem, monsters are present in certain minor episodes: the Finn Episode, the briefly mentioned fight of the hero with Dæghrefn, and (possibly) the accounts of the fight with Ongen_eow...read more

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9780980149661 | 1 edition (Lehigh Univ Pr, September 30, 2009), cover price $57.50 | About this edition: Students of Beowulf have usually agreed either that the poem’s minor episodes are more or less records of incidents in Scandinavian history or at least that they entail nothing of the fabulous or monstrous.
9781611460599 | Lehigh Univ Pr, August 31, 2009, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Students of Beowulf have usually agreed either that the poem’s minor episodes are more or less records of incidents in Scandinavian history or at least that they entail nothing of the fabulous or monstrous.

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9780521889933 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2008), cover price $99.99

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Presents biographical information along with critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas that appear in the author's works. (view table of contents)
By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791073865 | Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents biographical information along with critical analysis of the themes, symbols, and ideas that appear in the author's works.
9780877546276 | Chelsea House Pub, May 1, 1986, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Collection of critical essays on the major works of Zora Neale Hurston, including 'Their Eyes Were Watching God', 'Jonah's Gourd Vine', and 'Moses, Man of the Mountain.

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Product Description: Altmann and de Vos are back with more great ideas for exploring contemporary reworkings of classic folk and fairy tales that appeal to teen readers. If you loved New Tales for Old (Libraries Unlimited, 1999), this new work will be sure to please...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781563088315 | Libraries Unltd Inc, October 15, 2001, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Altmann and de Vos are back with more great ideas for exploring contemporary reworkings of classic folk and fairy tales that appeal to teen readers.

Hardcover:

9780313309045 | Greenwood Pub Group, July 30, 2001, cover price $52.00

Miscellaneous:

9780313007033 | Greenwood Pub Group, July 1, 2001, cover price $43.95 | also contains Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth

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Product Description: Book by Goldberg, Harriet (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780866982481 | Mrts, July 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Book by Goldberg, Harriet

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Explains how eight traditional European folktales can be altered in ways to reach teenagers, demonstrating how each story addresses such issues as leaving home, finding oneself, and discovering adult sexuality.

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9781563084478 | Libraries Unltd Inc, December 1, 1999, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Explains how eight traditional European folktales can be altered in ways to reach teenagers, demonstrating how each story addresses such issues as leaving home, finding oneself, and discovering adult sexuality.

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9780613787949 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $55.85 | About this edition: Explains how eight traditional European folktales can be altered in ways to reach teenagers, demonstrating how each story addresses such issues as leaving home, finding oneself, and discovering adult sexuality.

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9780685464106 | Temple Univ Pr, June 1, 1978, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780870135217 | Michigan State Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $16.95
9780803272163 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 1983), cover price $7.50

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Product Description: Herman Melville's reputation as a great writer has gradually evolved throughout the 20th century. Tempered by studies that emphasize the Western literary tradition, literary appreciation for Melville's use of folklore has been slow in developing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780873386258 | Kent State Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Herman Melville's reputation as a great writer has gradually evolved throughout the 20th century.

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Product Description: The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Gloria L. Cronin (editor)

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9780783800219 | Twayne Pub, November 1, 1998, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series.

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Product Description: In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe.The Land of Hunger is a graphic and engaging journey into the folk culture of early modern Europe. It will consolidate Camporesi’s reputation as one of the most original and imaginative historians of our time...read more

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9780745608884 | Polity Pr, January 22, 1996, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In this highly original book, Camporesi explores the two worlds of feast and famine in early modern Europe.

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Presents a critical introduction to Shaw's classic drama, covering characterization, plot, symbolism, and setting.

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9780805794472 | Twayne Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Presents a critical introduction to Shaw's classic drama, covering characterization, plot, symbolism, and setting.

Paperback:

9780805745382 | Twayne Pub, April 1, 1995, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Presents a critical introduction to Shaw's classic drama, covering characterization, plot, symbolism, and setting.

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Paperback:

9780813915258 | Reprint edition (Univ of Virginia Pr, April 1, 1994), cover price $27.50

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