{"product_id":"strange-terrain-the-fairy-world-in-newfoundland-paperback-softback-9781894725804","title":"Strange Terrain; The Fairy World in Newfoundland (Paperback \/ softback) 9781894725804","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStrange Terrain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Fairy World in Newfoundland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781894725804\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 July 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e372 pages, Maps - Photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.528 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eStrange Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e is an excellent book. Rieti has made a major contribution by documenting and analysing fairy lore as living tradition.\" - Ranald Thurgood, \u003ci\u003eCulture \u0026amp; Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Barbara Rieti's \u003cem\u003eStrange Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e marks a renaissance in fairylore studies, moving the study of fairylore from a literary study to one informed by ethnographic, psychological, phenomenological, and religious perspectives.\" - David E. Gay, \u003ci\u003eFolklore Forum\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eStrange Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e is an interesting and unusual book: the first extensive study of belief in fairies in Canada .... This is an important book for anyone doing research into popular beliefs and superstition.\" - Edith Fowke, \u003ci\u003eBooks in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of our best modern fairy books.\" - Simon Young, \u003ci\u003eFairies, Folklore and Forteana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFairies might be good or bad, and encounters with them funny or fatal. They can take on the form of people or animals, or they may have no form at all, as when a person walking in the woods is \"led astray\" by some irresistible force. This variability in fairies is matched by the diversity of human attitudes about them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarbara Rieti's study began in 1983 when she met a young man who told her that he had been followed by the fairies. Subsequent research drew on the hundreds of archival accounts of fairies and on Dr. Rieti's own fieldwork on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. Rieti describes the specific contexts in which fairy experiences are recounted and the manner in which they are told, keeping the storytellers at centre stage. She also highlights themes such as connections between fairies and nature, and the relationships between fairies and people. Comparative material sets the subject in historical and international context and demonstrates the remarkable tenacity of these old yet persistent tales.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe fairies may be going, but they are not gone yet. The stories still to be heard offer a window on everyday folklife, as well as on an extraordinary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword by Diane Tye\u003c\/i\u003e (ix)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpigraph\u003c\/i\u003e (xvi)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface to the Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (xvii)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface to the First Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (xxv)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e (xxvii)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Note on the Documentation and Transcription of Sources\u003c\/i\u003e (xxx)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAlways Going and Never Gone? (1)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFairy Forms and Narrative Contexts: An Overview (17)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBread, Wind, Old Paths: The Texture and Planes of Everyday Life in Fairy Narrative (65)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTradition and the Interpretation of Experience (109)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFairies, Devils, and Other Impostors in Bishop's Cove:  Tales of a Trickster (153)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUFOs: Urban Fairy Oddities, and Some Modern Influences  on the Genesis and Evolution of Fairy Tradition (189)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFairy Tradition as Discourse on Time and Change (227)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion (265)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e (271)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e (309)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInformant Index\u003c\/i\u003e (337)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Memorial University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52712029946136,"sku":"9781894725804","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/strange-terrain-the-fairy-world-in-newfoundland-paperback-softback-9781894725804","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}