blackburn stuart ramanujan (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. APPEARS UNREAD. Hardcover shows minimal shelving wear, otherwise an UNBLEMISHED copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Gray cloth binding with no former owner marks. Overall in very good condition.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 387 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Based on papers presented at two conferences, in Berkeley, Calif. in February 1980 and in Mysore, India in August 1980. "Sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies." Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Two realms of Kannada folklore / A.K. Ramanujan -- Social dyads in Indic folktales / Brenda E.F. Beck -- Battle as metaphor in Tamil folk and classical traditions / David D. Shulman -- Epics and ideologies : six Telugu folk epics / Velcheru Narayana Rao -- Performance markers in an Indian story-type / Stuart H. Blackburn -- The kath of aka : two tellings / Susan S.W. Wadley -- The Ma ikkur avan story : from ritual to entertainment / George L. Hart -- Playing Cenne/ Peter J. Claus -- Internal Iconicity in Paraiyar "Crying Songs"/Margaret T. Egnor -- A Select Bibliography of Indian Folklore/Stuart H. Blackburn -- Index. Subjects; Folklore India ; Congresses. Folk literature, Indic History and criticism ; Congresses. Folklore India. India Social life and customs ; Congresses. Indian folklore. Indian languages. Harmony. Folklore. South Asian folklore. 3 Kg.

387 S., orig. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag ; Sprache: Englisch ; Literaturverzeichnis S. 342- 367 ; Einband an den Rändern stockfleckig durch wasserschaden, sonst sehr guter, sauberer Zustand ;

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. xv, 270 pages ; 24 cm.

Zustand: As New. 1st ed. near fine/dj also near fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. xv, 270 pages : 23 cm. Summary:This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good hardback copy. No dustjacket. x, 387pp. Book.