| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 443 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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/Lévi 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. |
| Summary |
Compilation of Dundes's most important analytical work, including many widely unavailable essays. Edited by Simon Bronner. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Dundes, Alan.
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Dundes, Alan. (OCoLC)fst00035292
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Folklore.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Folklore. (OCoLC)fst00930306
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| Added Author |
Bronner, Simon J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dundes, Alan. Meaning of folklore. Logan : Utah State University Press, ©2007 9780874216837 0874216834 (DLC) 2007033333 (OCoLC)165957291 |
| ISBN |
9780874216844 (electronic bk.) |
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0874216842 (electronic bk.) |
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9780874216837 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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0874216834 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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