They are just the sort of narratives that small folks love, and are designed for retelling in the kindergarten and home.
In retelling the tales in prose the editor has introduced material from Lydgate and others.
Who could extol enough his Cuculain, that incarnation of Gaelic chivalry, the fire and gentleness, the beauty and heroic ardour or the imaginative splendor of the episodes in his retelling of the ancient story.
It began as a retelling of a familiar romance; it ended in an original poem, which might easily be made into a drama or a "modern" novel.
The latter is commonly named as one of the few original works of Burns, but it is probably a retelling of some old witch-tale of Betty Davidson.
I was sure it was taken from oral sources, but he has just told me to my surprise, that he was only retelling what he had read in Irish, not what he had HEARD or taken down orally.
The materials for the retelling of this story are very slight.
It was useless for Adrian to affect ignorance of the story; and, indeed, that would have made matters worse, for it would have put it on her to attempt the retelling of it.
The perplexities which beset the modern reader of the Queste are reflected in the Laureate's retelling of the legend.
The comparison of the Conte du Graal with Celtic legends and folk-tales has shown that the former is in the main a North French retelling of tales current then, as now, among the Celtic peoples of Britain, and probably of Brittany.
This knows nought of Merlin, and is nearer to Chrestien than to the Didot-Perceval, and may, indeed, be looked upon as simply a clumsy retelling of the Conte du Graal with numerous additions.
Geology was reborn, the records of the rocks came to have a new meaning, every broken fossil form became a word, maybe a paragraph, for the retelling of the past of the earth.
The outstanding facts of Mary Baker Eddy's life are too well known to need muchretelling here.
The epic stories of Siegfried, Beowulf and Ulysses are given prominence with a retelling of Beowulf and four stories from King Arthur.
A retelling in prose style is good but lacks spirit and humor of Pyle versions.
The pictures and the retelling are both popular with children, but neither is as dear to them as the third form of reproduction of which I wish to speak.
This individual retelling of an old tale demands a careful distinction between what is essential and internal and what may have been added, what is accidental and external.
With the older child, who analyzes more definitely, this results in a retelling which actually reproduces the teller's mode of thinking.
And for the oldest children, a union of the oral re-telling by individual children with the retelling in rhythms by all the children, would give much pleasure and social exhilaration.
This very popular tale among children is a retelling of two old tales combined, The Little Red Hen and the Irish Little Rid Hin.
Children enjoy the retelling of good stories with which they are familiar.
The retelling of stories is, after all, no harder nor duller than the reciting of a lesson learned out of a book.
I recall one such instance in particular, and, because it seems to me so singularly appropriate, I may be pardoned, I trust, forretelling a story that I have incorporated elsewhere.
I hope I may be pardoned for retelling this story, which I have already told elsewhere.
But the old is infinitely better, and my only hope and aim is, that the retelling of these stories by the living voice may send every reader, every listener, to the Master of Romance himself.
In the collection and clarification and retelling of folk-literature William Larminie and Lady Gregory and Dr.
He was especially happy in retelling old stories or in constructing tales from historical events.
In place of either of these subjects you may substitute the retelling of another story of Hawthorne's you have read.
Obviously the object is to avoid monotony, by introducing a new feature: but this might as well have been aimed at by the old poet retelling the tale as by a new poet retelling it.
It suggests to us that the epic is developed out of the lay, not by a process of fitting together, but rather by a retelling of the story in a more leisurely way.
The new story, while retellingthe principal facts in the previous account, would give prominence to the latest news, the discovery of the body.
In many follow-up stories the new developments are supplemented by an entire retelling of the original story.
