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Folklore by the Fireside
Text and Context of the Tuscan VegliaBy Alessandro Falassi
University of Texas Press, 1980
For centuries, social life in rural Tuscany has centered around the veglia, an evening gathering of family and friends at the hearth. Folklore by the Fireside is a thorough and insightful study of this custom—from the tales, riddles, lullabies, and folk prayers performed as the small children are put to bed to the courtship songs and dances later in the evening to the anti-veglia male gossip, card games, and protest songs originating in the tavern.
Alessandro Falassi skillfully correlates the veglia to the rites of passage and family values of an agrarian society. Although the impact of mass media and other factors has tended to weaken the tradition, even today Tuscan children are taught to behave and adolescents are guided along the conventional path to adulthood, courtship, and marriage through veglia folklore.
This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values. It is important not only for its careful, detailed description but also for its rigorous methodology and theoretical richness.
From North Africa to France
Family Migration in Text and FilmIsabel Hollis-Touré
University of London Press, 2015
From Socrates to Software
The Teacher as Text and the Text as TeacherEdited by Philip W. Jackson and Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
University of Chicago Press, 1989
From Syntax to Text
The Janus Face of Functional Sentence PerspectiveLibuse Dusková
Karolinum Press, 2015
From Text to Action
Essays in Hermeneutics, IIPaul Ricoeur
Northwestern University Press, 1991
From Text to Action
Essays in Hermeneutics, IIPaul Ricoeur, Translated from the French by Kathleen Blamey and John B. Thompson, Foreword to the new edition by Richard Kearney
Northwestern University Press, 2007
From Text to Action is an essential companion to the classic The Conflict of Interpretations. Here, Ricoeur continues and extends his project of constructing a general theory of interpretation, positioning his work in relation to its philosophical background: Hegel, Husserl, Gadamer, and Weber. He also responds to contemporary figures like K. O. Apel and Jürgen Habermas, connecting his own theorization of ideology to their critique of ideology.
This new edition includes a foreword by Richard Kearney. It and other new editions of Ricoeur's texts published by Northwestern University Press have joined the canon of contemporary continental philosophy and continue to contribute to emergent discussions in the twenty-first century.
From Text to Context
The Turn to History in Modern JudaismIsmar Schorsch
Brandeis University Press, 1994
From Text to Context
The Turn to History in Modern JudaismIsmar Schorsch
University Press of New England, 2003