American folktales : from the collections of the Library of Congress / / foreword by Peggy A. Bulger ; edited by Carl Lindahl

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (793 p.)
• Disciplina: 398.2/0973
• Soggetto topico: Tales - United States; Storytellers - United States
• Altri autori: LindahlCarl <1947->
• Note generali: "Based on the collections of the American Folklife Center."; First published 2004 by M.E. Sharpe.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on the Recordings and How They Are Transcribed; American Folktales: Their Stuff and Styles; 1. THE NATION'S MOST CELEBRATED STORYTELLING FAMILY: THE HICKSES AND THE HARMONS; Samuel Harmon; 1. How I Bought and Stole My Wife; 2. Telling Tales to My Grandkids; 3. The Great Pumpkin; 4. Giant Mosquitoes; 5. Jack, Tom, and Will; 6. The Marriage of the King's Daughter; 7. Stiff Dick; 8. The Mad King; 9. The Bean Tree; 10. Little Dicky Whigburn; 11. Catskins; 12. Old Black Dog; Maud Long ; 13. When My Mother Told Jack Tales14. Jack and the Giants' Newground; 15. Jack and the Drill; 16. Jack and the Varmints; 17. Jack and the Bull; 18. Jack and the Doctor's Girl; 19. Jack and the Northwest Wind; 20. Jack and One of His Hunting Trips; 21. Old Fire Dragaman; 22. Love: A Riddle Tale; 23. Jack and the Heifer Hide; 24. Jack and the River; 25. Hooray for Old Sloosha!; 26. Feathers in Her Hair; 27. The Yape; Ray Hicks; 28. Jack and the Robbers; 29. The Unicorn and the Wild Boar; 30. The Witch Woman on the Stone Mountain on the Tennessee Side; 31. Grinding at the Mill; 32. Mule Eggs ; 2. SARA CLEVELAND: IRISH AMERICAN TALES FROM BRANT LAKE, NEW YORK33. Finn MacCool and the Rocks; 34. Black Horses; 35. Telling Fortunes with Cards; 36. Spiritualism and Fortune Telling; 37. Pull, God Damn You, Pull!; 38. The Kiln Is Burning; 39. Baby's Gone; 40. The Witch and the Donkey; 41. The Lady and the Fairy; 42. Little Red Night Cap; 43. Old Graybeard; 44. Shiver and Shake; 45. Rob Haww; 46. One Thing the Devil Can't Do; 3. J.D. SUGGS: ITINERANT MASTER; 47. How I Learned My Tales; 48. Mr. Snake and the Farmer; 49. Buzzard Goes to Europe; 50. Monkey Apes His Master ; 51. Efan Outruns the Lord52. Mr. Fox and Mr. Deer; 53. Brother Rabbit Rides Brother Bear; 54. Brother Bear Meets Man; 55. Brother Bear and Brother Deer Hold a Meeting; 56. The Devil's Daughter; 57. Where Um-hum Came From; 58. Skin, Don't You Know Me?; 59. The Great Watermelon; 60. Pull Me Up, Simon; 61. Brother Bill, the Wild Cowboy; 4. JOSHUA ALLEY: DOWN-EAST TALES FROM JONESPORT, MAINE; 62. The Bear's Tale; 63. Man Warren Beal and the Indians; 64. Wrestling the Chief; 65. Chute's Wedge Trick; 66. Dodging the Wolves; 67. Open, Saysem; 68. The Murderers; 69. The Haunted Sloop ; 70. Groans, Gold, Dreams, and the Devil5. WILL ""GILLIE"" GILCHRIST: TALES OF INJUSTICE IN THE URBAN SOUTH; 71. Robbed-and Taken for a Thief; 72. More Cop Trouble; 73. Courtroom Trouble; 74. More Courtroom Trouble; 75. Cop, Courtroom, and Jail Trouble; 6. JANE MUNCY FUGATE: HEALING TALES FOR A MOUNTAIN CHILD AND TROUBLED ADULTS; 76. How I Learned My Tales; 77. Merrywise; 78. One-My-Darling; 79. Old Greasybeard; 80. The King's Well; 81. Rawhead and Bloodybones; 82. The Three Sillies; 83. The Tarnished Star; 84. Tailipoe (1955); 85. Tailipoe (2001); Notes on the Tales ; 7. THE NATION'S MOST CELEBRATED FOLKLORE COLLECTORS
• Sommario/riassunto: This two-volume collection of folktales represents some of the finest examples of American oral tradition. Drawn from the largest archive of American folk culture, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, this set comprises magic tales, legends, jokes, tall tales and personal narratives, many of which have never been transcribed before, much less published, in a sweeping survey. Eminent folklorist and award-winning author Carl Lindahl selected and transcribed over 200 recording sessions - many from the 1920s and 1930s - that span the 20th century, including recent material draw
• Titolo autorizzato: American folktales
• ISBN: 1-317-47722-7; 1-315-70656-3; 1-317-47723-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808382603321
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