A Treasury of American Folk Humor
Author : James Nathan Tidwell
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1956
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : James Nathan Tidwell
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1956
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Amy L. Cohn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590428682
A compilation of more than 120 folk songs, tales, poems, and stories telling the history of America and reflecting its multicultural society. Illustrated by award-winning artists.
Author : Steve Koppman
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 1998-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1461731534
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Author : Linda Watts
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1646930002
Folklore has been described as the unwritten literature of a culture: its songs, stories, sayings, games, rituals, beliefs, and ways of life. Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to this popular subject. This comprehensive reference guide addresses the needs of multiple audiences, including high school, college, and public libraries, archive and museum collections, storytellers, and independent researchers. Its content and organization correspond to the ways educators integrate folklore within literacy and wider learning objectives for language arts and cultural studies at the secondary level. This well-rounded resource connects United States folk forms with their cultural origin, historical context, and social function. Appendixes include a bibliography, a category index, and a discussion of starting points for researching American folklore. References and bibliographic material throughout the text highlight recently published and commonly available materials for further study. Coverage includes: Folk heroes and legendary figures, including Paul Bunyan and Yankee Doodle Fables, fairy tales, and myths often featured in American folklore, including "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Princess and the Pea" American authors who have added to or modified folklore traditions, including Washington Irving Historical events that gave rise to folklore, including the civil rights movement and the Revolutionary War Terms in folklore studies, such as fieldwork and the folklife movement Holidays and observances, such as Christmas and Kwanzaa Topics related to folklore in everyday life, such as sports folklore and courtship/dating folklore Folklore related to cultural groups, such as Appalachian folklore and African-American folklore and more.
Author : James N. Tidwell (ed)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Folklore
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Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1317362268
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Author : Hugh Lupton
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1782856854
Sharpen your wits and dazzle your friends with this fabulous collection of riddles, puzzles and riddle-stories. The Barefoot Book of Riddles won’t just make you laugh out loud — it will give you new ways of thinking about the world.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1856 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
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Author : BROM WEBER
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1962
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ISBN :