Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Journal of American Folklore
Author: A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America
Author: Publisher: Martino Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Antiquary
Author: Edward WalfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The English Traditional Ballad
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351544810
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Ballads are a fascinating subject of study not least because of their endless variety. It is quite remarkable that ballads taken down or recorded from singers separated by centuries in time and by hundreds of kilometres in distance, should be both different and yet recognizably the same. In The English Traditional Ballad, David Atkinson examines the ways in which the body of ballads known in England make reference both to ballads from elsewhere and to other English folk songs. The book outlines current theoretical directions in ballad scholarship: structuralism, traditional referentiality, genre and context, print and oral transmission, and the theory of tradition and revival. These are combined to offer readers a method of approaching the central issue in ballad studies - the creation of meaning(s) out of ballad texts. Atkinson focuses on some of the most interesting problems in ballad studies: the 'wit-combat' in versions of The Unquiet Grave; variable perspectives in comic ballads about marriage; incest as a ballad theme; problems of feminine motivation in ballads like The Outlandish Knight and The Broomfield Hill; murder ballads and murder in other instances of early popular literature. Through discussion of these issues and themes in ballad texts, the book outlines a way of tracing tradition(s) in English balladry, while recognizing that ballad tradition is far from being simply chronological and linear.
The Academy
Author: The Academy and Literature
Author: The Classical Review
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ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910
Folklore
Author: Joseph JacobsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.