Perspectives on the Jack tales : and other North American Märchen / edited by Carl Lindahl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindahl, Carl, 1947- editor.

Series:

Special publications of the Folklore Institute ; no. 6.

Special publications of the Folklore Institute ; no. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jack tales--United States.

Jack tales.

Jack tales--Canada.

Fairy tales--United States.

Fairy tales.

Fairy tales--Canada.

Folklore.

Anthropology.

Canada.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Folklore.

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Contained In:

ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Folklore Institute / Indiana University Bloomington, [2001]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

This volume is about North American Marchen, a vernacular art form that has been strangely ignored or misconstructed by many. At the same time, the genre's vitality and appeal are evidenced by its persistent presentation as written literature. The essays in this volume re-examine common assumptions about "magic" tales and their tellers, reconsidering the performance, collection, transcription, publication, and interpretation of narratives that continue to live orally - especially in the private realm - as one mechanism of intergenerational communication or as symbolic articulation of worldview." "First published as a special issue of the Journal of Folklore Research (38:1-2, 2001), Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Marchen grew out of research presented at "American Magic: The Fates of Oral Fiction in the New World," a conference held at the University of Houston in October 1997. In addition to four interpretive essays, six segments feature narrators and their transcribed narratives, accompanied by contextualizing introductions. Some segments compare editing practices or narrative styles; others represent the first publication of contemporary narratives to tales that have long lain in archives, unheard and unavailable. All attest to the skill of the tellers and the artistry of their creations.

Contents:

A Tale of Verbal Economy: "Stiff Dick" / Samuel Harmon, narrator

Introduction: Representing and Recovering the British- and Irish-American Marchen / Carl Lindahl

Two Tellings of "Merrywise": 1949 and 2000 / Jane Muncy Fugate, narrator

Two Versions of "Rawhead and Bloodybones" from the Farmer-Muncy Family / Glen Muncy Anderson, Jane Muncy Fugate, narrators

Sounding a Shy Tradition: Oral and Written Styles of American Mountain Marchen / Carl Lindahl

Two Transcriptions of "Jack and the Bull," by Polly Johnson / James Taylor Adams, Richard Chase, transcribers

Storybook Style: "Jack and the Green Man" / Louise Fontaine Mann, narrator

Is Old Jack Really Richard Chase? / Charles L. Perdue Jr.

A Model of Appropriate Behavior? "The Ship That Sailed on Land and Water" / Alice Lannon, narrator

Jack and His Masters: Real Worlds and Tale Worlds in Newfoundland Folktales / Martin Lovelace

In Memoriam: Herbert Halpert / Gerald Thomas.

Notes:

"Originally published as a special issue of the Journal of folklore research, vol. 38, nos. 1 and 2 (January-August 2001)"--Serial title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2014.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS, viewed June 3, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Perspectives on the Jack tales.

OCLC:

891437313

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