03053oam 22006614a 450 99621118540331620240418034004.01-283-26713-697866132671390-87421-491-2(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 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Flowering ThornInternational Ballad Studies /edited by Thomas A. McKean1st ed.Utah State University, University Libraries2003Logan, Utah :Utah State University Press,2003.©2003.1 online resource (395 p.)"A project of the Kommission für 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 scholarshFolk literatureHistory and criticismBalladsHistory and criticismElectronic books. Folk literatureHistory and criticism.BalladsHistory and criticism.782.4/3McKean ThomasauthMcKean Thomas A.1961-961850MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996211185403316The flowering thorn2180657UNISA