Cycles of influence : fiction, folktale, theory / / Stephen Benson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910954918203321
• Autore: Benson Stephen (Stephen Frank)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9780814339091; 0814339093
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Disciplina: 809/.9113
• Soggetti: Literature and folklore; Postmodernism (Literature); Tales - History and criticism; Fiction - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Tales in Theory: The Role of the Folktale in the Development of Narratology 2. Theory in Tales: Cycles, Levels, and Frames 3. The Idea of the Folktale in Italo Calvino Italian Folktales: Text and Contexts First Idea: Tradition and Ideology Second Idea: Singular Fantasies Third Idea: A "Geometry of Story-Telling" 4. Narrative Turns John Barth, Author of the Arabian Nights. "Familiarity Breeds Consent": Robert Coover and the Fairy Tale 5. Craftiness and Cruelty: A Reading of the Fairy Tale and Its Place in Recent Feminist Fictions "Curiosity ... Is Insubordination in Its Purest Form" Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The arguments presented will interest not only folklorists and scholars of narrative but readers in fields ranging from comparative literature to feminist theory.

The transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 / / essays by Marvin T. Smith ... [et al.] ; edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956952303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2002
• ISBN: 1-282-82137-7; 9786612821370; 1-60473-955-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): SmithMarvin T; EthridgeRobbie Franklyn <1955->; HudsonCharles M
• Disciplina: 975/.00497
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Southern States - Social conditions - 16th century; Indians of North America - Southern States - Social conditions - 17th century; Indians of North America - Southern States - Social conditions - 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This volume contains the proceedings of the 1998 Porter L. Fortune, Jr., History Symposium, at the University of Mississippi"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Introduction / Charles Hudson XI -- Aboriginal population movements in the postcontact southeast / Marvin T. Smith -- The Great southeastern smallpox epidemic, 1696-1700 : the region's first major epidemic? / Paul Kelton -- Spanish missions and the persistence of chiefly power / John E. Worth -- Trouble coming southward : emanations through and from Virginia, 1607-1675 / Helen C. Rountree -- The mother of necessity : Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the making of a new order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 / Steven C. Hahn -- The Ohio Valley, 1550-1750 : patterns of sociopolitical coalescence and dispersal / Penelope B. Drooker -- The cultural landscape of the North Carolina Piedmont at contact / R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr. -- Reconstructing the coalescence of Cherokee communities in Southern Appalachia / ; Christopher B. Rodning -- From prehistory through protohistory to ethnohistory in and near the northern lower Mississippi Valley / Marvin D. Jeter -- Colonial Period transformations in the Mississippi Valley : disintegration, alliance, confederation, playoff / Patricia Galloway -- Social changes among the Caddo Indians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Timothy K. Perttula -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: With essays by Stephen Davis, Penelope Drooker, Patricia K. Galloway, Steven Hahn, Charles Hudson, Marvin Jeter, Paul Kelton, Timothy Pertulla, Christopher Rodning, Helen Rountree, Marvin T. Smith, and John Worth The first two-hundred years of Western civilization in the Americas was a time when fundamental and sometimes catastrophic changes occurred in Native American communities in the South. In "The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians," historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists provide perspectives on how this era shaped American Indian society for later generations and how it even affects these communities today. This collection of essays presents the most current scholarship on the social history of the South, identifying and examining the historical forces, trends, and events that were attendant to the formation of the Indians of the colonial South. The essayists discuss how Southeastern Indian culture and society evolved. They focus on such aspects as the introduction of European diseases to the New World, long-distance migration and relocation, the influences of the Spanish mission system, the effects of the English plantation system, the northern fur trade of the English, and the French, Dutch, and English trade of Indian slaves and deerskins in the South. This book covers the full geographic and social scope of the Southeast, including the indigenous peoples of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, the Appalachian Mountains, the Carolina Piedmont, the Ohio Valley, and the Central and Lower Mississippi Valleys. Robbie Ethridge is an assistant professor of anthropology and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. Charles Hudson is Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Georgia.