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The Flowering Thorn : International Ballad Studies / / edited by Thomas A. McKean



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Autore: McKean Thomas Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Flowering Thorn : International Ballad Studies / / edited by Thomas A. McKean Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Utah State University, University Libraries, 2003
Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2003
©2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
Disciplina: 782.4/3
Soggetto topico: Folk literature - History and criticism
Ballads - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: McKeanThomas A. <1961->  
Note generali: "A project of the Kommission für Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute."
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Index
Sommario/riassunto: The 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
Titolo autorizzato: The flowering thorn  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-26713-6
9786613267139
0-87421-491-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996211185403316
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