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200 04$aThe flowering thorn $einternational ballad studies /$fedited by Thomas A. McKean
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aLogan, Utah $cUtah State University Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (395 p.)
300   $a"A project of the Kommission fur Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute."
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aContents; 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 Index
330   $aThe 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 scholarsh
606   $aBallads$xHistory and criticism
606   $aFolk literature$xHistory and criticism
615  0$aBallads$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aFolk literature$xHistory and criticism.
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