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    The Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore) (2015)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781138842205
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (343 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version The Ballad and the Folk (RLE Folklore)
    DDC: 398.04209411
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: The ballad is an enduring and universal literary genre. In this book, first published in 1972, David Buchan is concerned to establish the nature of a ballad and of the people who produced it through a study of the regional tradition of the Northeast of Scotland, the most fertile ballad area in Britain. His account of this tradition has two parallel aims, one specifically literary - to investigate the ballad as oral literature - and one broadly ethnographic - to set the regional tradition in its social context. Dr Buchan applies the interesting and important work which has recently been done on
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dediction; Table of Contents; Prefacce and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Part I: The Oral Tradition: the Folk; 2 The Land and the People; 3 The Agricultural Society; 4 The Border Region; 5 The Clannit Society; Part II: The Oral Tradition: the Ballads; 6 Balladry and Oral Poetry; 7 The Oral Ballads of Mrs Brown; 8 The Substance of the Ballads; 9 The Structure of the Ballads I; 10 The Structure of the Ballads II; 11 The Structure of the Ballads III; 12 The Sound of the Ballads
    Description / Table of Contents: 13 The Oral Ballad: A Summing-upPart III: The Tradition in Transition: the Folk; 14 The Revolutions; 15 The New Society; Part IV: The Tradition in Transition: the Ballads; 16 The Peter Buchan Controversy; 17 The Ballads of James Nicol; Part V: The Modern Tradition; 18 The Ballads of Bell Robertson; 19 The Bothy Ballads; 20 Conclusion; Appendix: Northeast Collectors and Collections; Glossary; Notes and References; A Selected Bibliography; Index of Ballads, Songs, Poems and Tales; General Index
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    Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore) : A Collection of Scottish Folk Literature (2015)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9781138843875
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (274 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    Parallel Title: Print version Scottish Tradition (RLE Folklore) : A Collection of Scottish Folk Literature
    DDC: 398.2/09411
    Keywords: Folk literature, Scottish ; Folk literature, Scottish ; History and criticism ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Scottish folk literature is characterised by a wide range of creative expression: story, song, play and proverb. This anthology, first published in 1984, provides an authoritative introduction to Scottish folk literature, and is unique in that it deals with all the genres intrinsic to Scottish tradition. Its selected texts offer an unusual and diverse enjoyment to the reader, including such forms as wonder tales or Märhcen, classical ballads, riddles, jocular tales, lyric and comic and occupational folksongs, rhymes, historical and supernatural legends, and guisers' plays. The texts chosen cov
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Folk Literature: Introduction; 1 Folk Narrative; 2 Folksong; 3 Folksay; 4 Folk Drama; Abbreviations; Bibliographies and Notes; Glossary; Afterword and Acknowledgments; Indexes
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