The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Author :
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 468
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0940322692
ISBN-13 : 9780940322691
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by : Iona Opie

Download or read book The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren written by Iona Opie and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."


The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren Related Books

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Language: en
Pages: 468
Authors: Iona Opie
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-08-31 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and endurin
Children's Games in Street and Playground
Language: en
Pages: 371
Authors: Iona Archibald Opie
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An account of the games which children between the ages of six and twelve invent or perform out-of-doors for their own enjoyment
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Language: en
Pages: 816
Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-10-12 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Iona Archibald Opie
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1959 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's "The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren" is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and endur
The Classic Fairy Tales
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Iona Archibald Opie
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

SUMMARY: Presents the texts of twenty-four well-known fairy tales as they were first printed in English and summarizes the history of each title, especially fro