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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes

Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes


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The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journals. Brought together for the first time in this volume compiled and edited by Simon Bronner, the selection surveys Dundes's major ideas and emphases, and is introduced by Bronner with a thorough analysis of Dundes's long career, his interpretations, and his inestimable contribution to folklore studies. Runner-up, the Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History, 2009

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Analytics of Alan Dundes; I References; 36 Part I: Structure and Analysis 1.; Folklore as a Mirror of Culture; 53 2.; The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture: Identification and Interpretation; 67 3.; Metafolklore and Oral Literary Criticism; 77 4.; From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales; 88 (Postscript) The Motif-Index and the Tale Type Index: A Critique; 101 5.; How Indic Parallels to the Ballad of the "Walled-Up Wife" Reveal the Pitfalls of Parochial Nationalistic Folkloristics; 107 6.; Structuralism and Folklore; 123 (Postscript) Binary Opposition in Myth: The Propp/ L6vi-Strauss Debate in Retrospect; 145 7.; On Game Morphology: A Study of the Structure of Non- Verbal Folklore; 154 8.; The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory; 164 Part II: Worldview and Identity 9.; Folk Ideas as Units of Worldview; 179 (Postscript) Worldview in Folk Narrative; 193 10.; As the Crow Flies: A Straightforward Study of Lineal Worldview in American Folk Speech; 196 11.; Much Ado About "Sweet Bugger All": Getting to the Bottom of a Puzzle in British Folk Speech; 211 12.; Grouping Lore: Scientists and Musicians; 229 (A) Science in Folklore? Folklore in Science?; 232 (B) Viola Jokes: A Study of Second String Humor; 237 13.; Medical Speech and Professional Identity; 249 (A) The Gomer: A Figure of American Hospital Folk Speech; 252 (B) "When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think Horses, Not Zebras": A Folk Medical Diagnostic Proverb; 264 Part III: Symbol and Mind 14.; Getting the Folk and the Lore Together; 273 15.; Gallus as Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Cross-Cultural Consideration of the Cockfight as Fowl Play; 285 16.; The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs: Towards a Method of Analyzing Folktales; 319 17.; Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male; 327 (Postscript) Madness in Method Plus a Plea for Projective Inversion in Myth; 343 18.; Theses on Feces: ScatologicalAnalysis; 352 (A) The Folklore of Wishing Wells; 355 (B) Here I Sit: A Study of American Latrinalia; 360 (C) The Kushmaker; 375 19.; The Ritual Murder or Blood Libel Legend: A Study of Anti- Semitic Victimization through Projective Inversion; 382 20.; On the Psychology of Collecting Folklore; 410 (Postscript) Chain Letter: A Folk Geometric Progression; 422;

Review :
"Every folklorist must read it!" Peddarapu.Chenna Reddy, P.S.Telugu University, India "The editorial apparatus represents the work of a professional who knows the mind and impact of Dundes as well as anyone can." Ronald L. Baker, Indiana State University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780874216837
  • Publisher: Utah State University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 459
  • Sub Title: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0874216834
  • Publisher Date: 31 Oct 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 671 gr


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