Search Results - "ballads"

Public cowboy no. 1 the life and times of Gene Autry / by George-Warren, Holly

Table of Contents: “…The Autrys and the Ozments -- Cross timbers -- Tioga -- Workin' on the railroad -- Musical mentors -- A new name, a new profession -- The Oklahoma yodeling cowboy -- Hillbilly recording artist -- Midwestern buckaroo -- Uncle Art -- From "High steppin' Mama" to "Silver haired daddy" -- Sweet home Chicago -- "The singing and yodeling marvel" -- Motherless son -- WLS radio star -- Cowboy balladeer -- Smiley, Patsy, and Pee Wee -- Celluloid cowboy -- Negotiations by post -- Republic pictures star -- Battles--on screen and off -- The singing cowboy -- Public cowboy No. 1 -- Strike! …”
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Public cowboy no. 1 the life and times of Gene Autry / by George-Warren, Holly

Table of Contents: “…The Autrys and the Ozments -- Cross timbers -- Tioga -- Workin' on the railroad -- Musical mentors -- A new name, a new profession -- The Oklahoma yodeling cowboy -- Hillbilly recording artist -- Midwestern buckaroo -- Uncle Art -- From "High steppin' Mama" to "Silver haired daddy" -- Sweet home Chicago -- "The singing and yodeling marvel" -- Motherless son -- WLS radio star -- Cowboy balladeer -- Smiley, Patsy, and Pee Wee -- Celluloid cowboy -- Negotiations by post -- Republic pictures star -- Battles--on screen and off -- The singing cowboy -- Public cowboy No. 1 -- Strike! …”
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Digital and other virtualities renegotiating the image /

Table of Contents: “…On fidelity : art, politics, passion and event / Mary Kelly ; Legacies of resistance / Juli Carson -- Mary Kelly's Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi : virtual trauma and indexical witness in the age of mediatic spectacle / Griselda Pollock -- Nomad-words / Anna Johnson.…”
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Digital and other virtualities renegotiating the image /

Table of Contents: “…On fidelity : art, politics, passion and event / Mary Kelly ; Legacies of resistance / Juli Carson -- Mary Kelly's Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi : virtual trauma and indexical witness in the age of mediatic spectacle / Griselda Pollock -- Nomad-words / Anna Johnson.…”
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Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold / by Norton, Terry L., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: considerations in adapting Native American traditional literature -- Guide to the pronunciation of Cherokee words -- Origins -- The three worlds -- Fire -- Corn and game -- Disease and medicine -- The bear and the bear songs -- Tobacco -- The Pleiades and the pine cone -- Killing the great monsters -- The Great Yellow Jacket Ulagu -- The leech place -- The Uktena and the Shawano conjuror -- The red man and the Uktena -- Ustu-tli, the great snake of the Cohutta Mountains -- The great hawks -- The hunter in the Dakwa -- Supernatural and animal adversaries and helpers -- Spear-finger, the Nantahala Ogress -- The Stone Man of the Mountains -- The raven mockers -- The immortals and the water cannibals -- The man who traveled to the world below -- Judaculla, the slant-eyed giant of Tanasee Bald -- Legends of Pilot Knob -- Yahula -- The unseen helpers -- Legends from history by or about the Cherokee -- The lost Cherokee -- Ga'na and the Cherokee -- The Mohawk warriors -- The false warriors -- Jocassee -- Some heroic acts in wars with whites -- Cateechee of Keowee: a ballad of the Carolina backcountry -- Notes on sources used in the retellings.…”
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Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold / by Norton, Terry L., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: considerations in adapting Native American traditional literature -- Guide to the pronunciation of Cherokee words -- Origins -- The three worlds -- Fire -- Corn and game -- Disease and medicine -- The bear and the bear songs -- Tobacco -- The Pleiades and the pine cone -- Killing the great monsters -- The Great Yellow Jacket Ulagu -- The leech place -- The Uktena and the Shawano conjuror -- The red man and the Uktena -- Ustu-tli, the great snake of the Cohutta Mountains -- The great hawks -- The hunter in the Dakwa -- Supernatural and animal adversaries and helpers -- Spear-finger, the Nantahala Ogress -- The Stone Man of the Mountains -- The raven mockers -- The immortals and the water cannibals -- The man who traveled to the world below -- Judaculla, the slant-eyed giant of Tanasee Bald -- Legends of Pilot Knob -- Yahula -- The unseen helpers -- Legends from history by or about the Cherokee -- The lost Cherokee -- Ga'na and the Cherokee -- The Mohawk warriors -- The false warriors -- Jocassee -- Some heroic acts in wars with whites -- Cateechee of Keowee: a ballad of the Carolina backcountry -- Notes on sources used in the retellings.…”
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A Silvan Tomkins Handbook : Foundations for Affect Theory by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Table of Contents: “…A child's garden of verses. Underwoods. Ballads.--XVII. Vailima letters: correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin.…”
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A Silvan Tomkins Handbook : Foundations for Affect Theory by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Table of Contents: “…A child's garden of verses. Underwoods. Ballads.--XVII. Vailima letters: correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin.…”
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Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / by Stern, Rebecca

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Home Economics : Domestic Fraud in Victorian England / by Stern, Rebecca

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Definitions of Irishness in the 'Library of Ireland' literary anthologies by MacCarthy, Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Barry, editor; Publication details; "The exile of Erin" controversy; Barry's definition of Irishness; Barry's selection creates an Irish identity; Arrangement of items in the selection; Hercules Ellis, editor; The songs of Ireland, second series -- The ballad poetry of Ireland. Charles Gavan Duffy, editor; Publication details; Duffy's definition of Irishness; Duffy's selection creates an Irish identity; Arrangement of items in the selection; Denis Florence MacCarthy, editor: part one; Publication details; MacCarthy's definition of Irishness; MacCarthy's selection creates an Irish identity -- Arrangement of items in the selection. …”
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Definitions of Irishness in the 'Library of Ireland' literary anthologies by MacCarthy, Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Barry, editor; Publication details; "The exile of Erin" controversy; Barry's definition of Irishness; Barry's selection creates an Irish identity; Arrangement of items in the selection; Hercules Ellis, editor; The songs of Ireland, second series -- The ballad poetry of Ireland. Charles Gavan Duffy, editor; Publication details; Duffy's definition of Irishness; Duffy's selection creates an Irish identity; Arrangement of items in the selection; Denis Florence MacCarthy, editor: part one; Publication details; MacCarthy's definition of Irishness; MacCarthy's selection creates an Irish identity -- Arrangement of items in the selection. …”
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"The stage's glory" John Rich, 1692-1761 /

Table of Contents: “…Good for the Garden : the composition of Handel's Ariodante / Donald Burrows -- "Heathen gods and heroes" : singers and John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson -- The Beggar's opera in London's theatres, 1728-1761 / Jeremy Barlow -- Beyond The Beggar's opera : John Rich and English ballad opera, 1728-1736 / Berta Joncus and Vanessa L. …”
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"The stage's glory" John Rich, 1692-1761 /

Table of Contents: “…Good for the Garden : the composition of Handel's Ariodante / Donald Burrows -- "Heathen gods and heroes" : singers and John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson -- The Beggar's opera in London's theatres, 1728-1761 / Jeremy Barlow -- Beyond The Beggar's opera : John Rich and English ballad opera, 1728-1736 / Berta Joncus and Vanessa L. …”
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

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Women writing back/writing women back transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay -- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai -- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' …”
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Women writing back/writing women back transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era /

Table of Contents: “…Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay -- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai -- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' …”
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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / by Dundes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Folklore as a mirror of culture -- The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation -- Metafolkore and oral literary criticism -- From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique -- How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics -- Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Levi Strauss debate in retrospect -- On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore -- The devolutionary premise in folklore theory -- Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech -- Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech -- Grouping lore--scientists and musicians: science in folklore--folklore in science? …”
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Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / by Dundes, Alan

Table of Contents: “…Folklore as a mirror of culture -- The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation -- Metafolkore and oral literary criticism -- From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique -- How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics -- Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Levi Strauss debate in retrospect -- On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore -- The devolutionary premise in folklore theory -- Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech -- Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech -- Grouping lore--scientists and musicians: science in folklore--folklore in science? …”
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