NICC Library: New Books at PEOSTA: Folklore

Folklore

The Complete Folktales of A.N. Afanas’ev / by Jack V. Haney.
Call Number: 398.2 Afa
ISBN: 9781628460933
Publication Date: Jackson: U. Mississippi Pr., 2014– . 2 vols. (of 3).
Reviewed: Choice May 2016 vol. 53 no. 9 (Essential)
The Early Finn Cycle / by Kevin Murray.
Call Number: 891.6 Mur
ISBN: 9781846826306
Publication Date: Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Pr., 2017. 192 p.
Reviewed: TLS 5 Jan. 2018 p. 15.
Description: The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fíanaigecht) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medieval Irish literary cycles along with the Ulster Cycle, the Cycle of Historical Tales (or Cycles of the Kings) and the Mythological Cycle. This study seeks to account for the emergence of the Finn Cycle from fragmentarily documented beginnings to become the dominant genre of Gaelic literature after 1200.
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes / by Edith Hamilton; illus. by Jim Tierney. 75th Anniv. ed.
Call Number: 292.13 Ham
ISBN: 9780316438520
Publication Date: New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2017, c1942. 371 p.
Reviewed: WSJ 23/24 Sept. 2017 p. C9.
Description: From Odysseus’s adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin’s effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton’s classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows us how the ancients saw their own place in the world and how their themes echo in our consciousness today. (publ.)