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Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Adventures of John O' Badenyon in Pursuit of Happiness. To which are Added, the Matrimonial Song and the British Tar
Author: The adventures of John o' Badenyon, in pursuit of happiness [bu J. Skinner]. To which are added, The matrimonial song [&c.].
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Author: John SkinnerAdventures of John of Badenyon
Author: John SkinnerThe Adventures of John O' Badenyon, in Pursuit of Happiness. To which are Added, the Matrimonial Song, and the British Tar
Author: Thomas JohnstonCatalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: The Ballad and the Folk Pbdirect
Author: David BuchanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317552903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
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 Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary – to investigate the ballad as oral literature – and one broadly ethnographic – to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on oral tradition in Europe on the relationship of the ballad to society to his study of this particular part of Scotland. He examines a nonliterate society to discover what factors besides nonliteracy helped foster its ballad tradition. He analyses the processes of composition and transmission in the oral ballad, and considers the changes which removed nonliteracy, altered social patterns, and seriously affected the ballad tradition. By demonstrating how people who could neither read nor write were able to compose literature of a high order, David Buchan provides a convincing explanation of the ballad’s perennial appeal and an answer to the ‘ballad enigma’. His book is also a valuable study in social history of this culturally distinct region, the Northeast of Scotland.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1716
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.