Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 17,45 MB
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110903768
No detailed description available for "Analytic Essays in Folklore".
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Utah State University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1646420691
The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journals. Brought together for the first time in this volume compiled and edited by Simon Bronner, the selection surveys Dundes's major ideas and emphases, and is introduced by Bronner with a thorough analysis of Dundes's long career, his interpretations, and his inestimable contribution to folklore studies. Runner-up, the Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History, 2009
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Studies in Folklore
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
No detailed description available for "Analytic Essays in Folklore".
Author : Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253052440
By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sparking lively debate that often centers on why his definition intrinsically acknowledges tradition rather than expresses its connection forthright. Without tradition among people, there would be no art or communication, and tradition cannot accomplish anything on its own—only people can. Ben-Amos's focus on creative communication in communities is woven into the themes of the theoretical essays in this volume, through which he advocates for a better future for folklore scholarship. Folklore Concepts traces Ben-Amos's consistent efforts over the span of his career to review and critique the definitions, concepts, and practices of Folklore in order to build the field's intellectual history. In examining this history, Folklore Concepts answers foundational questions about what folklorists are doing, how they are doing it, and why.
Author : Haya Bar-Itzhak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 23,12 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814342094
Scholars and students interested in Jewish folklore and literature will appreciate this diverse collection as well as readers interested in Jewish and Israeli culture.
Author : Ernest Jones
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN :
Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574410365
Six essays discuss definitions and explanations of folklore, and methods of teaching it. Then 15 additional essays explore Texas folklore related to such topics as police burials, gang graffiti, fiddling, ghosts, dance halls, oil fields, spring rituals, and the dialect spoken along the border between Texas and Mexico. Numerous illustrations and black-and-white photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Daniel Merkur
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Myth
ISBN : 9780824059361
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781574410181
Juneteenth Texas reflects the many dimensions of African-American folklore. The personal essays are reminiscences about the past and are written from both black and white perspectives. They are followed by essays which classify and describe different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas; studies of specific genres of folklore, such as songs and stories; studies of specific performers, such as Lightnin' Hopkins and Manse Lipscomb and of particular folklorists who were important in the collecting of African-American folklore, such as J. Mason Brewer; and a section giving resources for the further study of African Americans in Texas.
Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780985521417
Just Folklore is a remarkable collection of essays on the forms and concepts of folklore. Jokes, legends, beliefs, ballads, rituals, routines, and material objects are dissected to reveal the ways they are constructed and the meanings they can convey. Tradition, transmission, symbol, group, identity, and other key concepts in the field are scrutinized to expose hidden problems and to suggest directions that folklore studies might fruitfully explore. Although originally written for folklorists, these essays are accessible to serious students new to the field. They will provoke discussion and debate. Students can find in these essays provocative and compelling models for the analysis and interpretation of the arts and traditions of everyday life.
