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 47
... symbolic projection as the folklore itself . The mystery of the association of shoes with marriage and children is partly solved by another version of the Mother Goose rhyme reported from the Ozarks of the 1890s . " There was another ...
... symbolic projection as the folklore itself . The mystery of the association of shoes with marriage and children is partly solved by another version of the Mother Goose rhyme reported from the Ozarks of the 1890s . " There was another ...
Page 194
... symbolic equivalents of female organs to young boys ? The young boys will not give birth themselves until much later when they are initiators instead of initiates . VII I have already suggested that previous analyses of initiation rites ...
... symbolic equivalents of female organs to young boys ? The young boys will not give birth themselves until much later when they are initiators instead of initiates . VII I have already suggested that previous analyses of initiation rites ...
Page 294
... symbolism inasmuch as they note that " the shoe has long been symbolic of what is personal to a woman until marriage . " Similarly , Swedish folklorist Anna Birgitta Rooth in her com- prehensive modern study of Cinderella has a brief ...
... symbolism inasmuch as they note that " the shoe has long been symbolic of what is personal to a woman until marriage . " Similarly , Swedish folklorist Anna Birgitta Rooth in her com- prehensive modern study of Cinderella has a brief ...
Contents
Texture Text and Context | 20 |
The Curious Case of the Widemouth Frog | 62 |
A Folkloristic Reflection of | 69 |
Copyright | |
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