Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes / edited and introduced by Simon J. Bronner.
| Author/creator | Dundes, Alan |
| Other author | Bronner, Simon J. |
| Other author | Project Muse. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2007. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (xv, 443 pages :) : illustrations ; |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
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| Series | Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Folklore as a mirror of culture -- The study of folklore in literature and culture: identification and interpretation -- Metafolkore and oral literary criticism -- From etic to emic units in the structural study of folktales ; postscript, the motif index and the tale-type index: a critique -- How Indic parallels to the ballad of the "walled-up wife" reveal the pitfalls of parochial nationalistic folkloristics -- Structuralism and folklore ; postscript, binary opposition in myth: the Propp/Levi Strauss debate in retrospect -- On game morphology: a study of the structure of non-verbal folklore -- The devolutionary premise in folklore theory -- Folk ideas as units of worldview ; postscript, worldview in folk narrative -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech -- Much ado about "sweet bugger all": getting to the bottom of a puzzle in British folk speech -- Grouping lore--scientists and musicians: science in folklore--folklore in science? ; viola jokes--a study of second string humor -- Medical speech and professional identity--the Gomer--a figure of American hospital folk speech ; "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras"--a folk medical diagnostic proverb -- Getting the folk and the lore together -- Gallus as phallus: a psychoanalytic cross-cultural consideration of the cockfight as fowl play -- The symbolic equivalence of allomotifs: towards a method of analyzing folktales -- Earth-diver: creation of the mythopoeic male ; postscript, madness in method plus a plea for projective inversion in myth -- Theses on feces: scatological analysis--the folklore of wishing wells ; here I sit--a study of American latrinalia ; the kushmaker -- The ritual murder or blood libel legend: a study of anti-Semitic victimization through projective inversion -- On the psychology of collecting folklore ; postscript, chain letter--a folk geometric progression. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007033333 |
| ISBN | 9780874216844 |
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