| Description |
xiv, 304 pages : illustrations, music ; 24cm |
| Contents |
Who are the folk? -- Texture, text, and context -- Projection in folklore: a plea for psychoanalytic semiotics -- Curious case of the wide-mouth frog -- Thinking ahead: a folkloristic reflection of the future orientation in American worldview -- Seeing is believing -- Wet and dry, the evil eye: an essay in Indo-European and semitic worldview -- The number three in American culture -- Crowing hen and the Easter bunny: male chauvinism in American folklore -- A psychoanalytic study of the bullroarer -- Into the endzone for a touchdown: a psychoanalytic consideration of American football -- "To love my father all": a psychoanalytic study of the folktale source of King Lear -- Hero pattern and the life of Jesus |
| Summary |
Often controversial, Alan Dundes's scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. The thirteen essays gathered here by Dundes reflect his concern to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, to use it to increase our understanding of human nature and human culture |
| Analysis |
Folklore |
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Folklore Methodology |
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Folklore United States |
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Psychoanalysis and folklore |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 263-287 |
| Subject |
Folklore -- Methodology.
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Folklore -- Theory, methods, etc
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Folklore -- United States.
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Psychoanalysis and folklore.
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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| LC no. |
79002969 |
| ISBN |
0253143071 (cased) |
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025320240X (paperback) |
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