Creativity and tradition in folklore: new directions

✍ Scribed by Simon J Bronner

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Taken together, these stimulating case studies and philosophical essays are a moving statement for understanding human expressiveness in a new way.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
1 Introduction (SIMON J. BRONNER, page 1)
Ballad and Song
2 Some Songs of Place and Ballads of Name (IAN A. OLSON, page 41)
3 The Aisling and the Cowboy...and Factory Girl (D. K. WILGUS AND ELEANOR R. LONG‒WILGUS, page 57)
4 "The Dollar and the Devil": From Poem to Traditional Song? (W. K. MCNEIL, page 71)
Narrative
5 Pearl Bryan in Legend (RONALD L. BAKER, page 93)
6 The Legend Conduit (LINDA DÉGH, page 105)
7 Narrating in Socialist Everyday Life: Observations on Strategies of Life Management in Southeast Europe (KLAUS ROTH, page 127)
8 "I Saw the Trees had Souls": Personal Experience Narratives of Contemporary Witches (ELIZABETH TUCKER, page 141)
9 The Fruit of the Womb: Creative Uses of a Naturalizing Tradition in Folktales (CRISTINA BACCHILEGA, page 153)
Language and Cultural Knowledge
10 On the Naming of Places and Kindred Things (WILBUR ZELINSKY, page 169)
11 Paremiological Minimum and Cultural Literacy (WOLFGANG MIEDER, page 185)
12 What, If Anything, Is a Scotticism? (J. DERRICK MCCLURE, page 205)
13 Words and Things in Gaelic Scotland (ALEXANDER FENTON, page 223)
Community and Identity
14 The Forgotten Makars: The Scottish Local Poet Tradition (MARY ELLEN BROWN, page 239)
15 Celebration of the Slava by a Serbian Family in England (VENETIA NEWALL, page 255)
16 Tradition, Change, and Hmong Refugees (ROGER E. MITCHELL, page 263)
17 Elaborating Tradition: A Pennsylvania‐German Folk Artist Ministers to His Community (SIMON J. BRONNER, page 277)
W. F. H. Nicolaisen: A Selected Bibliography (page 327)
Contributors (page 339)
Index (page 345)