Charms, charmers and charming : international research on verbal magic / edited by Jonathan Roper
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- 出版： Basingstoke [England] ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2009
- 叢書名： Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
- 主題： Charms , Incantations
- ISBN： 9780230583535 、 0230583539
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- 書目註：Charms, Charmers and Charming addresses popular verbal magic. Its nineteen chapters focus on charms (the words), charmers (the people) and charming (the activity) in a broad range of times and places, from early modern Finland to contemporary Malaysia, and from late medieval England to colonial Madagascar. A selection of experts from America, Asia and Europe discuss rat charms, snake charms, how impossibility and inevitability are expressed in charms, why charming has revived following theBalkan wars, the literary use of charms by Shakespeare and by Malagasystory-tellers, the ramifications of Byzantine charms in later times and places Byzantium, and how charms are (amongst other things) a means of coping. Taken together, the book offers some of the best and most diverse scholarship produced in the current revival in the study of charms Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005170340 | 機讀編目格式
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Introduction: Unity and Diversity in Charms Studies; J.Roper -- PARTI: TOPICS AND ISSUES IN CHARMS STUDIES -- The Charmer's Body and Behaviour as a Window onto Early Modern Selfhood; L.Stark --'If not, shall employ "Rough on Rats"': Identifying the common elements of rat charms;P.Cowdell -- Miracles and Impossibilities in Magic Folk Poetry; E.籀Pcs-- Snakebite Charms from a Gender Perspective; R.Herjulfsdotter -- Charms as a Means of Coping; U.Wolf-Knuts -- Towards the Systematization of Narrative Elements of Slavic Charms; V.Klyaus -- Conformity and Originaligy in Middle English Charms;T.M.Smallwood -- The Nightmare Charm in King Lear; J.Simpson -- Expressions of Impossibility and Inevitability in Mari Charms; N.Glukhova & V.Glukhov -- PART II: NATIONAL TRADITIONS -- Russian Charmsin a Comparative Light; A.Toporkov -- Slovenian Charms and Conjuring: Between South Slavic and Central European Tradition;M.Kropej -- Finnish Snake Charms; H.Ilo瓣mki -- Estonian Narrative Charms in European Context; J.Roper -- Lithuanian and Latvian Charms: Searching for Parallels; D.Vaitkeviciene-- Charms in Late Middle English Recipe Collections; L.Olsan -- The Charms of the Biljana, a Bajalica(Conjurer) in Budisava, Serbia; M.Vivod -- Verbal Charms in Malagasy Folktales; L.Haring -- The Structure and Use of Charms in Georgia, The Caucasus; M.Tsiklauri -- Malay Magic; K.O.Low