FolkloreFolklore
An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art
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Book, 1997
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Current format, Book, 1997, , In-library use only. Offered in 0 more formats"From anecdotes, boasts, and children's stories to urban tall tales, vampires, and Xerox-lore, this superb scholarly dictionary illuminates the historical and contemporary form, figures, and fields of folklore. In over 240 in-depth articles by leading scholars, basic cultural concepts, academic theories and methodologies, supernatural creatures and stereotypical characters are discussed with regard to the field of folklore. This cross-cultural study emcompasses literary and oral traditions as well as music, art, architecture, foodways, and other customs."--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, USA, ALA.Entries cover all aspects of folklore and the types of analysis relevant to their study, including such headings as eschatology, fakelore, gossip, life history, mumming, and personal experience narrative
Not a reference on folklore itself, but on the study of folklore, explaining types, themes, approaches, theories, methods of inquiry, and other categories and concepts used in the academic study of vernacular production. Focuses on American and European research into folklore of many different cultures, but does not actually discuss any particular folklore tradition except as an occasional example. Favoring a longer, essay-type entry to the short definition, includes articles on such topics as the broadside ballad, custom, evolutionary theory, folk music, genre, liminality, occupational folklore, psychoanalytic interpretations, romantic nationalism, the trickster, and the Wellerism. Well cross-referenced. Bibliographies are entry-specific. The two volumes are paged and indexed together. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
<p>Designed for students, scholars, and general readers, this work focuses on folklore forms and methods from a cross-cultural, theoretical perspective.</p><p><i>Folklore</i> emphasizes those bodies of North American and European scholarship that have influenced each other most profoundly since the discipline's inception. The entries provide an introduction that facilitates the pursuit of more specialized topics and other bodies of scholarship.</p><p></p><p>Topics range from such traditional subjects as "festival" and "folktale" to cutting-edge entries such as "computer-mediated folklore" and "postmodernism." In most cases, a longer, more comprehensive essay format for entries has been favored over shorter entries. Entries are cross-referenced, and each includes a select bibliography to serve as a guide to in depth research.</p><p><br>• Entries are cross referenced, and each includes a select bibliography to serve as a guide to in depth research</p>
Not a reference on folklore itself, but on the study of folklore, explaining types, themes, approaches, theories, methods of inquiry, and other categories and concepts used in the academic study of vernacular production. Focuses on American and European research into folklore of many different cultures, but does not actually discuss any particular folklore tradition except as an occasional example. Favoring a longer, essay-type entry to the short definition, includes articles on such topics as the broadside ballad, custom, evolutionary theory, folk music, genre, liminality, occupational folklore, psychoanalytic interpretations, romantic nationalism, the trickster, and the Wellerism. Well cross-referenced. Bibliographies are entry-specific. The two volumes are paged and indexed together. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Designed for students, scholars, and general readers, this work focuses on folklore forms and methods from a cross-cultural, theoretical perspective.
<p>Designed for students, scholars, and general readers, this work focuses on folklore forms and methods from a cross-cultural, theoretical perspective.</p><p><i>Folklore</i> emphasizes those bodies of North American and European scholarship that have influenced each other most profoundly since the discipline's inception. The entries provide an introduction that facilitates the pursuit of more specialized topics and other bodies of scholarship.</p><p></p><p>Topics range from such traditional subjects as "festival" and "folktale" to cutting-edge entries such as "computer-mediated folklore" and "postmodernism." In most cases, a longer, more comprehensive essay format for entries has been favored over shorter entries. Entries are cross-referenced, and each includes a select bibliography to serve as a guide to in depth research.</p><p><br>• Entries are cross referenced, and each includes a select bibliography to serve as a guide to in depth research</p>
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