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The ballad image : essays presented to Bertrand Harris Bronson / edited by James Porter ; with a foreword by Wayland D. Hand.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore & Mythology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1983.Description: xxvi, 262 p. : ill., music ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0912513004
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 784.4/9 19
Contents:
Theodor Fontane's 'Sir Patrick Spens' / W. F. H. Nicholson -- 'King Orpheus' and the harmony of the seasons / Emily B. Lyle -- Four black sheep among the 305 / Tristram Potter Coffin -- the problem of identity in lyric folk song / Judith McCulloch -- The 'Mary Scott' complex: outline of a diachronic model / James Porter -- A folk music exhibition / Archie Green -- Analyzing the revival: the influence of Jeannie Robertson / Herschel Gower -- Joe Smith: the poet as outlaw / Edward D. Ives -- Ballad tradition and Hugh Spencer / David Buchan -- Impossibles in ballad style / Hugh Shields -- The oral-formulaic theory of balladry: a rebuttal / Albert B. Friedman -- A tension of essences in murdered-sweetheart ballads / D. K. Wilgus.
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Books Books VWML MPS 10 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only 11119

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theodor Fontane's 'Sir Patrick Spens' / W. F. H. Nicholson -- 'King Orpheus' and the harmony of the seasons / Emily B. Lyle -- Four black sheep among the 305 / Tristram Potter Coffin -- the problem of identity in lyric folk song / Judith McCulloch -- The 'Mary Scott' complex: outline of a diachronic model / James Porter -- A folk music exhibition / Archie Green -- Analyzing the revival: the influence of Jeannie Robertson / Herschel Gower -- Joe Smith: the poet as outlaw / Edward D. Ives -- Ballad tradition and Hugh Spencer / David Buchan -- Impossibles in ballad style / Hugh Shields -- The oral-formulaic theory of balladry: a rebuttal / Albert B. Friedman -- A tension of essences in murdered-sweetheart ballads / D. K. Wilgus.

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