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Morphology of the Folktale
Second Edition
Häftad, 1968
244 kr
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This book is the classic work on forms of the European folktale.
Folklore Genres
Av Dan Ben-Amos
Häftad, 1975
359 kr
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The essays in Folklore Genres represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions. The study as a whole is concerned with the concept of genre and with the history of genre theory. A selective bibliography provides a guide to analytical …
Jump-rope Rhymes
A Dictionary
Häftad, 1969
275 kr
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I had a little brother.His name was Tiny Tim.I put him in the bathtubTo teach him how to swim.He drank all the water.He ate all the soap.He died last nightWith a bubble in his throat. Jump-rope rhymes, chanted to maintain the rhythm of the game, have other, equally entertaining uses: You can …
Folklore Methodology
Formulated by Julius Krohn and Expanded by Nordic Researchers
Av Kaarle Krohn
Häftad, 1971
216 kr
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Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials. For centuries scholars had collected folkloristic texts and had commented on them, but they had not tried to formulate a method of investigating folklore. Folklore Methodology …
Amorous Games
A Critical Edition of Les Adevineaux Amoureux
Häftad, 1974
380 kr
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Among the more interesting incunabula preserved in the Salle de la RÉserve of the BibliothÈque National in Paris are the apparently unique copies of two editions, very similar in content, of a work entitled Les Adevineaux amoureux. In much more comprehensive form Les Adevineaux amoureux is …
Indian Tales of North America
An Anthology for the Adult Reader
Häftad, 1961
225 kr
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This collection of folktales, originally published in 1961, presents stories from a wide range of North American indigenous peoples. The stories are grouped into three categories: “The Way the World Is,” “What Man Must Know and Learn,” and “The Excitement of Living.”
Counting-Out Rhymes
A Dictionary
Av Roger D. Abrahams, Lois Rankin
Häftad, 1980
275 kr
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Eeny, meeny, figgledy, fig.Delia, dolia, dominig,Ozy, pozy doma-nozy,Tee, tau, tut,Uggeldy, buggedy, boo!Out goes you. (no. 129) You can stand,And you can sit,But, if you play,You must be it. (no. 577) Counting-out rhymes are used by children between the ages of six and eleven as a special way of …
British Traditional Ballad in North America
Av Tristram Potter Coffin, Roger deV. Renwick
Häftad, 1977
331 kr
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Tristram Potter Coffin’s The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats …
Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Häftad, 1967
428 kr
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In the eyes of many white Americans, North and South, the Negro did not have a culture until the Emancipation Proclamation. With few exceptions, serious collecting of Negro folklore by whites did not begin until the Civil War—and it was to be another four decades before black Americans would begin …
Folk-Songs of the Southern United States
Av Josiah H. Combs, D.K. Wilgus
Häftad, 1967
312 kr
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“The spirit of balladry is not dead, but slowly dying. The instincts, sentiments, and feelings which it represents are indeed as immortal as romance itself, but their mode of expression, the folksong, is fighting with its back to the wall, with the odds against it in our introspective age.” This …
