Search Results for folktale

...Stuart H. Blackburn Abstract A folktale about two sisters who make a wager on the color of a white horse has been told in India for at least three thousand years; it is recorded in the oldest Vedic texts, and it is still sung today in a Tamil oral tradition. A survey of this historical depth shows...

...Kirin Narayan Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales from Oral Tradition . By Stuart Blackburn . Folklore Fellows' Communications, no. 278. Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia , 2001 . 338 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 304 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Beth Norford In Quest of Indian Folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke . By Sadhana Naithani . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2006 . xi , 328 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 In 1996, Sadhana...

...Stuart Blackburn Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales . By Kirin Narayan , in collaboration with Urmila Devi Sood New York : Oxford University Press , 1997 . xviii, 262 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...C. H. Wang Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 The Type Index of Chinese Folktales in the Oral Tradition and Major Works of Non-Religious Chinese Literature . By Nai-tung Ting . Helsinki : Academia Scientiarum Fennica FF Communications XCIV3 No. 223, 1978...

...Larry D. Shinn Folktales of India . Edited by Brenda E. F. Beck , Peter J. Claus , Praphulladatta Goswami , and Jawaharlal Handoo . Folktales of the World 13. Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1987 . xxxii, 357 pp. $29.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association...

...Anne Walthall Abstract Some records of social protest written during the Tokugawa period contain more fiction than fact. Their form owes much to the structure of folktales, and their content relies heavily on the military tales of the twelfth to thirteenth centuries. Although they do not describe...

... be separated from his innovations in the language and form of fiction. He employed a variety of dialects and deviated from conventional spelling and grammar, to draw the reader into the rural universe of sound. He included indigenous genres, such as the folk song, folktale, and rural drama, within the frame...

...Nayoung Aimee Kwon Abstract In the Japanese empire in 1938, an imperial-language theatrical adaptation of a folktale from colonial Korea, The Tale of Spring Fragrance (Ch'unhyang chŏn) opened to rave reviews in major metropolitan cities throughout Japan. The performance's popularity ignited...

... military epic, religious narrative, or oral folktale; and that the most important source proves to be the religious narrative tradition, where textual comparison reveals clearly some Muromachi stories are derivations from such works as Shintō shū . Medieval jongleurs and missionaries such as biwa hōshi...

... . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvi, 270 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). A. K. Ramanujan first began collecting Kannada folktales in the 1950s, when he was a college lecturer in South India. "I wrote them down by hand and years later, when I could afford a tape recorder, recorded them...

... the parallel, contradictory, and complementary types of literary story traditions in India that often inform popular beliefs and actions. Although it may be true that "the tales, taken as a whole, contrast sharply with those found in literary sources" (p. xxv), the introductions to the folktales overemphasize...

... deserves better treatment. CHARLES CAPWELL University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Folktales of India. Edited by BRENDA E. F. BECK, PETER J . CLAUS, PRAPHULLADATTA GOSWAMI, and JAWAHARLAL H A N D O O . Folktales of the World 13- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. xxxii, 357 pp. $29.50 (cloth...

...: John Murray, 1898 [1868 his daughter Mary's pathbreaking collection of oral tales from her ayah, folktales were useful in comprehending "the popular non-Brahminical superstitions of the lower orders" (p. xiii). Since then, folktales have been used for a variety of intellectual purposes: to advance...

... BLACKBURN and A L A N D U N D E S . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvi, 270 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). A. K. Ramanujan first began collecting Kannada folktales in the 1950s, when he was a college lecturer in South India. "I wrote them down by hand and years later, when I could...

... the author uses the numbers found in other works of folktale types (Indie, Jewish, and Japanese). The book is divided into four parts; Animal Tales (nos. 1-299); Ordinary Folktales (nos. 300-1199); Jokes (nos. 1200-1999); Formula Tales (nos. 2000-2399); and Unclassified Tales (nos. 2400-2499). Under Ordinary...

...) and modern folktales of oral origin chosen from sources published in modern Korean, Japanese, English, or Russian. The purpose of this compendium is "to illustrate how certain tales and narrative motifs from the ancient period have persisted down to the present day in the oral literature of the Korean people...

... songs, as well as songs for the occasions of engagement and wedding. A number of folktales and short stories refer to all kind of animals, trees, plants and magic objects. There are also humorous stories and jokes. The Ch'uan Miao represent a subgroup of the Miao, and as indicated by their name settle...

... of tenure. The large collection of lawsuits in the Baxian Archives allows an examination of the treatment of tenants in the magistrates' court and of the rights of persons who had disposed of land by means of conditional sale (dianmai). Domesticating the Cosmos: History and Structure in a Folktale from...

... two primary modes so concretely embodied in his childhood experience akam and puram, the inner and outer spaces, mothertongues and father-tongues, the folktales told in the former and the myths composed in the latter, with their different textures and structures of authority. This categorical division...