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Interpreting Legend (RLE Folklore)
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 …
Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore)
This volume is a collection of folk culture in the Newfoundland. It explores and documents the linguistic and folkloristic traditions, dialect, mumming traditions, and narratives …
Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement (RLE Folklore)
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 …
The Development of Soviet Folkloristics (RLE Folklore)
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 …
A Scottish Ballad Book Pbdirect
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 …
Wise Words (RLE Folklore)
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 …
Ewe Comic Heroes (RLE Folklore)
The trickster character is prominent in the cultural, particularly narrative, traditions of many different peoples throughout the world. Comic and serious, stupid and clever, …
The Oral Style (RLE Folklore)
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 …
The Ballad and the Folk Pbdirect
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 …
Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore)
This volume provides an introduction to Scottish folk literature covering classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical …
Interpreting Legend Pbdirect
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 …
Studies in Folk Life (RLE Folklore)
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 …