Interpreting Folklore..". Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." -- Center for Southern Folklore Magazine "It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [Dundes'] excursuses, however much one may be in disagreement (or not) with his conclusions." -- Forum for Modern Language Studies Often controversial, Alan Dundes's scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. His concern here is to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, and to use folklore to increase our understanding of human nature and culture. |
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Page 118
... suggests that the eye may be a nonliteral or symbolic one . As early as 1913 , Reiter suggested that the eye of Polyphemus represented the father's phallus and that Odysseus's blinding of Cyclops represented a son's castration of his ...
... suggests that the eye may be a nonliteral or symbolic one . As early as 1913 , Reiter suggested that the eye of Polyphemus represented the father's phallus and that Odysseus's blinding of Cyclops represented a son's castration of his ...
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... suggested underlies the whole evil eye belief complex . In the Judeo - Christian tradition , ideas of the afterlife ... suggests that there may be an infantile prototype for this metaphor , namely , the initial postnatal breast - feeding ...
... suggested underlies the whole evil eye belief complex . In the Judeo - Christian tradition , ideas of the afterlife ... suggests that there may be an infantile prototype for this metaphor , namely , the initial postnatal breast - feeding ...
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... suggests an infantile origin for the equation of Urzeit and Endzeit , as Gunkel and others refer to the beginning and end of human time on earth . Some scholars have suggested an infantile origin for paradise , but they tend to think ...
... suggests an infantile origin for the equation of Urzeit and Endzeit , as Gunkel and others refer to the beginning and end of human time on earth . Some scholars have suggested an infantile origin for paradise , but they tend to think ...
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Texture Text and Context | 20 |
The Curious Case of the Widemouth Frog | 62 |
A Folkloristic Reflection of | 69 |
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