11) §2. Types. XXXII. Non-English Writings II. Vol. 18. Later National
Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of English and American
Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...to that temperament and that state of society—oratory, epigram, lyrics, ritual-drama, folk-tale, and epic. 3 In any competent account of this aboriginal literature...
12) I. Prose Fiction. General Introduction. By Professor W. A. Neilson.
1909-14. Lectures on the Harvard Classics. The Harvard Classics
...human speech, the novel, as we understand it, is comparatively modern. The unsophisticated folk tale, represented by the contents of such collections as that of the...
13) Introductory Note. 1909-14. The Book of Job. The Harvard Classics
...that the story of Job s experiences may have long existed in popular form; and that this old folk-tale may have been taken up by some unknown author who saw its possibilities,...
14) Rizal, Jose. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...against Spanish rule. He also wrote articles; Mariang Makiling (1890), a Philippine folk tale; and considerable poetry. 1See his letters, tr. by J. P. Apostol (1959);...
15) shrew. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...as other shrews. A belief that the shrew's bite is poisonous was dismissed for years as a folk tale, but has since been substantiated: the saliva of at least one...
16) d. The Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period (11th-17th
Dynasties). 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...from the Hyksos. One of these Theban kings, Seqenenre Tao II, is the hero of a folk tale, "The Contending of Apophis and Seqenenre." His successor, Kamose, left a...
17) Chapter Four. The Cat and the Occult. Van Vechten, Carl. 1922. The Tiger in
the House
...Arabian legend connects her creation with the story of the ark. According to this charming folk-tale the pair of mice originally installed on board this boat increased...
18) Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales. Frazer, Sir James George.
1922. The Golden Bough
...his life is not in it. 1 Evidence of this primitive belief is furnished by a class of folk-tales of which the Norse story of The giant who had no heart in his body...
19) Introduction. Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story
...intent, it was full of frank gayety and of playful humor. It may be defined as a realistic folk tale, not bookish in its flavor, but with the simple shrewdness of...
20) §3. "Beowulf:" Scandinavian Traditions; Personality of the Hero; Origin and
Antiquity of the Poem; the Religious Element. III. Early National Poetry.
Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History
of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes.
1907–21
...from the Old English poem. More probably the origin of both stories alike is to be sought in a folk-tale, and, just as the adventures were attributed in Iceland to...
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