San Antonio College Library

"An anthology of Yiddish folk tales that never before have been available in English, Radiant Days, Haunted Nights reveals the enormous breadth and depth of Yiddish folk literature, from its roots to its full blossoming in the modern era." "Standing at the intersection of the spoken folk tale and the European tradition of printed literature, the Yiddish folk literature collected in this volume provides a fascinating glimpse into four centuries of...

"This book will give Propp's admirers in the English-speakling world a whole new perspective on this distinguished scholar's contribution to folkloristics. Liberman provides the necessary background in terms of Russian/Soviet intellectual (and political) currents to place Propp's work in a new light. No student of structuralism in folklore can afford to miss Liberman's anthology."--Alan Dundes (from cover).

"In Homo Narrans John D. Niles explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. This book weaves together the study of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture with the author's own engagements in the field with some of the greatest twentieth-century singers and storytellers in the Scottish tradition. Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the role of individual talent in oral...

Reveals the way of life and culture of the American Indian through writings which convey his hopes, and struggles, and despair.

The folktales of A. N. Afanas'ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas'ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages, Byelorusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. The result of his own collecting, the collecting of friends and correspondents, and in a few cases his publishing...