02908nam 22006254a 450 991014327410332120200520144314.01-283-26713-697866132671390-87421-491-2(CKB)1000000000344123(EBL)287120(OCoLC)779852234(SSID)ssj0000458228(PQKBManifestationID)11268380(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458228(PQKBWorkID)10439286(PQKB)10018291(MdBmJHUP)muse16327(Au-PeEL)EBL3442771(CaPaEBR)ebr10328683(OCoLC)932313523(Au-PeEL)EBL287120(CaONFJC)MIL326713(MiAaPQ)EBC3442771(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47769(EXLCZ)99100000000034412320030825d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe flowering thorn international ballad studies /edited by Thomas A. McKean1st ed.Logan, Utah Utah State University Pressc20031 online resource (395 p.)"A project of the Kommission fur Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute."0-87421-568-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Contents; Introduction; Now She's Fairly Altered Her Meaning: Interpreting Narrative Song; Malign Forces That Can Punish and Pardon: Structure and Motif; Recapturing the Journey: Cruxes of Context, Version, and Transmission; Regions, Reprints, and Repertoires; ""Purement scientifique et archeologique"": The Mediating Collector; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; General Index; Song Title IndexThe flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with the very features that characterize ballads... or narrative songs. These include an appearance of fragmentation; a wide range of cultural and social referents; complex, evocative symbolic language; and variation. The notable multiformity of meaning, text and tune is mirrored in scholarshBalladsHistory and criticismFolk literatureHistory and criticismBalladsHistory and criticism.Folk literatureHistory and criticism.782.4/3McKean Thomas A.1961-961850MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910143274103321The flowering thorn2180657UNINA