The Influence of Transmission on the English Ballads
Author : John Robert Moore
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : John Robert Moore
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : John Robert Moore
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 1916
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Author : Robert Thomson
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Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351544810
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.
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Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Folk songs
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Folklore
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Author : William Peterfield Trent
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 1921
Category : American literature
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Louise Pound
Publisher : New York, Macmillan
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Ballads
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Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Philology, Modern
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