Andrew Lang (March, 31, 1844 – July 20, 1912) was a Scottish writer and literary critic who is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang’s academic interests extended beyond the literary and he was a noted contributor to the fields of anthropology, folklore, psychical research, history, and classic scholarship, as well as the inspiration for the University of St. Andrew’s Andrew Lang Lectures. A prolific author, Lang published more than 100 works during his career, including twelve fairy books, in which he compiled folk and fairy tales from around the world. Lang’s Lilac Fairy and Red Fairy books are credited with influencing J. R. R. Tolkien, who commented on the importance of fairy stories in the modern world in his 1939 Andrew Lang Lecture “On Fairy-Stories.”
James Stephens
James is a New Zealander. He was a teacher, musician and music director, a journalist and event manager – as well as a husband, father and grandfather. He was a voracious reader, a fluent writer and confident speaker.
In 2015, he suffered a hemiparesis, a middle cerebral artery territory infarct.
In a word, a stroke.
He collapsed, paralysed on his right side, and couldn’t speak or write. The hospital intervention was rapid and his limbs were free but his speech was absent.
He had/has aphasia.
Aphasia is the loss of a previously held ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease – in this case, a stroke.
He has semi-recovered with expert therapists in speech, music and eurhythmy.
He has a positive and optimistic outlook, electing to view his stroke as a ‘stroke of luck’.
“My aphasia forced me to look at my life differently and to re-invent myself. Now, I am an author – apparently!”
Wilhelm Grimm and his brother Jacob are famous for their classical collection of folk songs and folktales, especially for Children’s and Household Tales, generally known as Grimm’s Fairy Tales.
Título : 500 Eternal Masterpieces Of Fairy Tales (Golden Deer Classics)
EAN : 9782377938339
Editorial : Oregan Publishing
Edad, de : 4 años
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