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Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore)
Av David Buchan
Inbunden, 2015
2898 kr
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The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in …
Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship (RLE Folklore)
A Critical Survey and Selective Annotated Bibliography
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed by folklorists working in other parts of the world. With the exception of anthropologists who occasionally study the folk literature of indigenous …
Development of Soviet Folkloristics (RLE Folklore)
Av Dana Howell
Inbunden, 2015
3075 kr
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Crucial to the world history of folkloristics is this key study, first published in 1992, of the development of folklore study in the Soviet Union. Nowhere else has political ideology been so heavily involved with folklore scholarship. Professor Howell has examined in depth the institutional …
Ewe Comic Heroes Pbdirect
Trickster Tales in Togo
Av Zinta Konrad
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for …
Interpreting Legend Pbdirect
Danish Storytellers and their Repertoires
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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This book, first published in 1994, sets ‘repertoire against raconteur’ in order to explore one of the world’s largest collections of folk literature. The author’s findings, and his creative and synthetic methodologies, enhance greatly our understanding of the world of the legend, and especially …
Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect
Life-stories from Ibibioland
Inbunden, 2015
1000 kr
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The authentic voice of the tribal African woman has rarely been publicised. The picture given in these Ibibio autobiographies is strikingly different from the accepted image. This generation is the 'Iban Isong' – the Daughters of the Land – who have lived close to the soil under conditions little …
Oral Style (RLE Folklore)
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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In this book, first published in 1990, Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker offer the first English translation of Marcel Jousse’s crucially important work, Le style oral. As the translators observe, this study fired the imagination of contemporary intellectuals in Paris soon after its publication …
Scottish Ballad Book (RLE Folklore)
Av David Buchan
Inbunden, 2015
2898 kr
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The popular appeal of the ballad is perennial, and few literary genres give so much pleasure to so many kinds of people. This anthology, first published in 1973, is drawn from the richest ballad tradition in Britain, that of the Northeast of Scotland. It provides a fresh and original choice of …
Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore)
A Collection of Scottish Folk Literature
Av David Buchan
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish …
Some Day Been Dey (RLE Folklore)
West African Pidgin Folktales
Av Loreto Todd
Inbunden, 2015
2140 kr
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'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first published in 1979. These are richly illustrative of the various folklore genres of the region and are presented in a modified standard orthography, with an …
Studies in Folk Life Pbdirect
Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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This collection, first published in 1969, presents essays written by twenty of the most eminent scholars from the British Isles and Europe on aspects of folk life studies. The essays are written in honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate, Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum and doyen of folk life studies in …
Turandot's Sisters (RLE Folklore)
A Study of the Folktale AT 851
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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The central tale studied in Turandot’s Sisters, first published in 1993, is The Princess Who Can Not Solve the Riddle, AT 851. Other wisdom tales are surveyed to show that they are separate from the riddle tales in material and in spirit. Customs and beliefs concerning riddling and riddle contests …
Types and Motifs of the Judeo-Spanish Folktales (RLE Folklore)
Inbunden, 2015
7604 kr
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This monumental book, first published in 1992, represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a worldwide perspective. After many years of fieldwork and extensive archival investigations in Spain, Israel and the United States, the …
Wise Words (RLE Folklore)
Essays on the Proverb
Inbunden, 2015
3075 kr
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The twenty essays that comprise this book, which was first published in 1994, were written by leading paremiologists and folklorists from Africa, Canada, Great Britain, Germany and the US. They represent the best scholarship on proverbs in the English language, and together they give an impressive …
Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement Pbdirect
The Search for Japan's National Character and Distinctiveness
Av Ronald Morse
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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Yanagita Kunio almost singlehandedly initiated the serious study of folklore in Japan. Even modern Japanese folklorists who may disagree with his approach or his methods must take his body of work as a point of departure for their own. This book, first published in 1990, puts Yanagita’s career …
Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore)
Av David Buchan
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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This book shows the social context of a ballad tradition and its effects on the literature, and the functions of the literature in the social context. It explores the basic questions about the ballad and the folk through an examination of the ballads and the folk of the regional tradition.
Brazilian Folk Narrative Scholarship (RLE Folklore)
A Critical Survey and Selective Annotated Bibliography
Häftad, 2016
831 kr
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Although Brazilian scholars have collected and studied folklore since the second half of the nineteenth century, their work has gone largely unnoticed by folklorists working in other parts of the world. With the exception of anthropologists who occasionally study the folk literature of indigenous …
Development of Soviet Folkloristics (RLE Folklore)
Av Dana Howell
Häftad, 2016
752 kr
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This volume provides an insight into the rise of folkloristics in Russia undergoing almost unprecedented changes in social and political conditions. It is a valuable resource to all non-Russian readers.
Ewe Comic Heroes Pbdirect
Trickster Tales in Togo
Av Zinta Konrad
Häftad, 2016
752 kr
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The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, benevolent and evil, winner and loser, the trickster is a study in contradictions. The trickster cannot be pigeonholed, for …
Interpreting Legend Pbdirect
Danish Storytellers and their Repertoires
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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This volume is a large collection of folk literature. It is an in-depth exploration of rural Denmark, and provides an excellent vantage point from which to understand legends in their cultural contexts and within the lives of their tellers.
Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect
Life-stories from Ibibioland
Häftad, 2016
411 kr
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This volume is a collection of tales of life histories of 26 elderly women from Ibiboland. It obtains a first-hand record of the pattern of life and banishes the myth of primitivity of the African by illustrating the complexity of conversational language of peasants and market women.
Oral Style (RLE Folklore)
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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This volume is a work of fundamental importance in the field of orality-literacy studies. It provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account of the compositional style of oral showing that the antithetical, balancing, formulaic quality of that style is deeply rooted in the psychological nature.
Scottish Ballad Book (RLE Folklore)
Av David Buchan
Häftad, 2016
831 kr
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This Scottish ballad book provides a representative selection from the regional tradition with the best of ballad texts in the oral versions of Anna Brown and the widest range of ballad-stories. It is designed for both the general reader and the more academic student.
Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore)
A Collection of Scottish Folk Literature
Av David Buchan
Häftad, 2016
798 kr
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This volume provides an introduction to Scottish folk literature covering classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical and supernatural legends. It is divided into four sections: folk Narrative, folksong, folksay, and folk drama.
Some Day Been Dey (RLE Folklore)
West African Pidgin Folktales
Av Loreto Todd
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first published in 1979. These are richly illustrative of the various folklore genres of the region and are presented in a modified standard orthography, with an …
Studies in Folk Life Pbdirect
Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate
Häftad, 2016
774 kr
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This volume focuses on aspects of folk life studies, written in the honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate. It covers all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history reflecting the wide interests of Dr Peate and his valuable contribution.
Turandot's Sisters (RLE Folklore)
A Study of the Folktale AT 851
Häftad, 2016
831 kr
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Turandot's Sisters represents the culmination of more than a century's research on the riddle-tale subgenre by a small but distinguished group of folklorists. It focuses on the interpretation of riddles, especially the role of riddles in courtship ritual.
Types and Motifs of the Judeo-Spanish Folktales (RLE Folklore)
Häftad, 2016
1219 kr
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This book constitutes the first attempt to gather into a single body as many Judeo-Spanish tales published in Latin characters as could be assembled. It represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies, as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a world-wide perspective.
Wise Words (RLE Folklore)
Essays on the Proverb
Häftad, 2016
1167 kr
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This book is the first volume in the Garland Folklore Casebook series. It contains 20 essays on various aspects of proverb studies. These 20 essays touch upon the major concerns of paremiology, and they are representative results of the trends and themes of modem proverb scholarship.
Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement Pbdirect
The Search for Japan's National Character and Distinctiveness
Av Ronald Morse
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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This book provides a study of folklore in Japan. It also provides detail about Japanese political and literary trends which influenced or were influenced by the folklore scholarship of Yanagita. The book is useful for professional folklorists and any individual who is interested in folklore.
