Meaning of Folklore : The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes /: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alan Dundes, Simon J. Bronner.
• Authors: Dundes, Alan
• Editors: Bronner, Simon J
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Logan : Utah State University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (443 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Folklore & Mythology; Social Science -- Essays
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780874216844
• Related ISBNs: 9780874216837; 9781646420698
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