Author: Elsie Worthington Clews ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Folk-tales of Andros Island, Bahamas
Author: Elsie Worthington Clews ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Folk-tales of Angola
Author: Héli ChatelainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angola
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society
Author: Folk-lore from Maryland
Author: Annie Weston WhitneyPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
African American Folktales
Author: Roger AbrahamsPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0375705392
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean. With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folkore Library
Recentering Anglo/American Folksong
Author: Roger deVeer RenwickPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604738186
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study. In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong: folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis. In the first, on British traditional ballads in the West Indies, he shows how even the best of folklorists can produce an unconvincing study when theory is overvalued and texts are slighted. In the second he navigates the many manifestations of a single Anglo/American ballad, "The Rambling Boy," to reveal striking differences between a British diasporic strain on the one hand and a southern American, post-Civil War strain on the other. The third essay treats the poetics of a very old, extremely widespread, but never before formalized trans-Atlantic genre, the catalogue. Next is Renwick's claim that recentering folksong studies in our rich textual databanks requires that canonical items be identified accurately. He argues that "Oh, Willie," a song thought to be a simple variety of "Butcher's Boy," is in fact a distinct composition. In the final essay Renwick looks at the widespread popularity of "The Crabfish," sung today throughout the English-speaking world but with roots in a naughty tale found in both continental Europe and Asia. With such specific case studies as these, Renwick justifies his argument that the basic tenets of folklore textual scholarship continue to yield new insights.
Filipino Popular Tales
Author: Dean Spruill FanslerPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Tales of Yukaghir, Lamut and Russianized Natives of Eastern Siberia
Author: Waldemar BogorasPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465546901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Filipino Popular Tales
Author: VariousPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
"Filipino Popular Tales" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.