Interpreting folklore / Alan Dundes.

Author/creator Dundes, Alan
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1980.
Descriptionxiv, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Who are the folk? -- Texture, text, and context -- Projection in folklore: a plea for psychoanalytic semiotics -- Curious case of the wide-mouth frog -- Thinking ahead: a folkloristic reflection of the future orientation in American worldview -- Seeing is believing -- Wet and dry, the evil eye: an essay in Indo-European and semitic worldview -- The number three in American culture -- Crowing hen and the Easter bunny: male chauvinism in American folklore -- A psychoanalytic study of the bullroarer -- Into the endzone for a touchdown: a psychoanalytic consideration of American football -- "To love my father all": a psychoanalytic study of the folktale source of King Lear -- Hero pattern and the life of Jesus.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 263-287.
LCCN 79002969
ISBN0253143071
ISBN9780253143075
ISBN025320240X (pbk.)
ISBN9780253202406 (pbk.)

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