Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes /

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1. Verfasser: Dundes, Alan
Weitere Verfasser: Bronner, Simon J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Logan : Utah State University Press, 2007.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.