Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
Folktales of Newfoundland Pbdirect: The Resilience of the Oral Tradition
1st Edition
By J.D.A. Widdowson, Herbert Halpert
October 18, 2016
This volume is a collection of folk culture in the Newfoundland. It explores and documents the linguistic and folkloristic traditions, dialect, mumming traditions, and narratives of Newfoundland culture. The volume is meant for a general academic readership....
Turandot's Sisters Pbdirect: A Study of the Folktale AT 851
1st Edition
By Christine Goldberg
October 14, 2016
Turandot's Sisters represents the culmination of more than a century's research on the riddle-tale subgenre by a small but distinguished group of folklorists. It focuses on the interpretation of riddles, especially the role of riddles in courtship ritual....
A Scottish Ballad Book Pbdirect
1st Edition
By David Buchan
October 06, 2016
This Scottish ballad book provides a representative selection from the regional tradition with the best of ballad texts in the oral versions of Anna Brown and the widest range of ballad-stories. It is designed for both the general reader and the more academic student....
Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect: Life-stories from Ibibioland
1st Edition
By Iris Andreski
October 06, 2016
This volume is a collection of tales of life histories of 26 elderly women from Ibiboland. It obtains a first-hand record of the pattern of life and banishes the myth of primitivity of the African by illustrating the complexity of conversational language of peasants and market women....
Some Day Been Dey Pbdirect: West African Pidgin Folktales
1st Edition
By LORETO Todd
October 06, 2016
'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first published in 1979. These are richly illustrative of the various folklore genres of the region and are presented in a modified standard orthography, with an ...
Studies in Folk Life Pbdirect: Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate
1st Edition
Edited
By Geraint Jenkins
October 06, 2016
This volume focuses on aspects of folk life studies, written in the honour of Dr Iorwerth C. Peate. It covers all the various aspects of folk life, from linguistics to sociology, from architecture to agrarian history reflecting the wide interests of Dr Peate and his valuable contribution....
The Ballad and the Folk Pbdirect
1st Edition
By David Buchan
October 06, 2016
This book shows the social context of a ballad tradition and its effects on the literature, and the functions of the literature in the social context. It explores the basic questions about the ballad and the folk through an examination of the ballads and the folk of the regional tradition....
The Oral Style Pbdirect
1st Edition
By Marcel Jousse
October 06, 2016
This volume is a work of fundamental importance in the field of orality-literacy studies. It provides a thorough and detailed theoretical account of the compositional style of oral showing that the antithetical, balancing, formulaic quality of that style is deeply rooted in the psychological nature....
Types and Motifs of the Judeo-Spanish Folktales Pbdirect
1st Edition
By Reginetta Haboucha
October 06, 2016
This book constitutes the first attempt to gather into a single body as many Judeo-Spanish tales published in Latin characters as could be assembled. It represents a major contribution to Sephardic and Hispanic studies, as well as to comparative folklore scholarship in a world-wide perspective....
Wise Words Pbdirect: Essays on the Proverb
1st Edition
By Wolfgang Mieder
October 06, 2016
This book is the first volume in the Garland Folklore Casebook series. It contains 20 essays on various aspects of proverb studies. These 20 essays touch upon the major concerns of paremiology, and they are representative results of the trends and themes of modem proverb scholarship....
Yanagita Kunio and the Folklore Movement Pbdirect: The Search for Japan's National Character and Distinctiveness
1st Edition
By Ronald Morse
October 06, 2016
This book provides a study of folklore in Japan. It also provides detail about Japanese political and literary trends which influenced or were influenced by the folklore scholarship of Yanagita. The book is useful for professional folklorists and any individual who is interested in folklore....
Scottish Tradition Pbdirect: A Collection of Scottish Folk Literature
1st Edition
By David Buchan
September 29, 2016
This volume provides an introduction to Scottish folk literature covering classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical and supernatural legends. It is divided into four sections: folk Narrative, folksong, folksay, and folk drama....