Re-situating folklore : folk contexts and twentieth-century literature and art / Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Caro, F. A., 1943-2020.

Contributor:

Jordan, R. A. (Rosan A.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Literature and folklore--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and folklore.

Folklore--United States--History--20th century.

Folklore.

Art, American--20th century.

Art, American.

Folklore in literature.

Folklore in art.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2004]

Contents:

On literary and artistic uses of folklore : an introduction

Riddles of love and death : two American novels

Somebody always gets boiled : reworking "the robber bridegroom"

Falling in love with all its lore : adapting "A collection of Louisiana folk tales" for the stage

Folk rhetoric, literary strategy : proverbs in fiction

Pageant, death, initiation : the ambiguity of ritual

The threads of tradition : quilts as multivalent symbols / co-authored by Susan Roach

Cultural objects, personal images : Frida Kahlo, Clarence John Laughlin, and folklore

Finding a sense of place : folk ideas and the lore of place in written and visual arts texts

Not into cold space : the "novelization" of folklore collecting

Conclusion: old meanings, new meanings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-317) and index.

ISBN:

1572332484

OCLC:

53253424