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Book SynopsisHere, 16 scholars from Europe and the USA offer essays on topics such as the Child ballads in their British and American forms; aspects of the oral literatures of France, Ireland, Scandinavia, ancient Greece, modern Egypt and medieval England as well as recent literary ballads and popular songs.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Joseph Harris Technique, Text, and Context: Formulaic Narrative Mode and the Question of Genre Fleming G. Andersen Popular Modes of Narration and the Popular Ballad Hugh Shields Talerole Analysis and Child's Supernatural Ballads David Buchan The Historical Moorings of "The Gypsy Laddie": Johnny Faa and Lady Cassillis Sigrid Rieuwerts The Americanization of Scottish Ballads: Counterevidence from the Southwest of Scotland William B. McCarthy Parity of Ignorance: Child's Judgment on "Sir Cohn" and the Scottish Verdict "Not Proven" Emily Lyle Literary Backgrounds of the Scandinavian Ballad Vesteinn Olason Oral Literature, Written Literature: The Ballad and Old Norse Genres Bengt R. Jonsson Tradition and Innovation: The Influence of Child Ballads on the Anglo-American Literary Ballad Natascha Wurzbach Cultural Diglossia and the Nature of Medieval Latin Literature Jan Ziolkowski Song and Dance: Reflections on a Comparison of Faroese Ballad with Greek Choral Lyric Gregory Nagy Ring Composition in Maldon; or, a Possible Case of Chiasmus in a Late Anglo-Saxon Poem Albert B. Lord The Middle English Popular Romance: Minstrel versus Hack Writer Karl Reichl Grakappan (AT 425) as Chapbook and Folktale in Sweden Stephen A. Mitchell The Interplay of Genres in Oral Epic Performance: Differentially Marked Discourse in a Northern Egyptian Tradition Dwight Reynolds
