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The flowering thorn : international ballad studies / edited by Thomas A. McKean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKean, Thomas, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballads--History and criticism.
- Ballads.
- Folk literature--History and criticism.
- Folk literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (395 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, c2003.
- Logan Utah State University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- "A project of the Kommission fur Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613267139
- 9781283267137
- 1283267136
- 9780874214918
- 0874214912
- OCLC:
- 779852234
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