Interpreting Folklore / Edition 1

by Alan Dundes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253202406
Publisher:	Indiana University Press (IPS)
Publication date:	04/12/2005
Edition description:	12th ed.
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.68(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Who Are the Folk?
Texture, Text, and Context
Projection in Folklore: A Plea for Psychoanalytic Semiotics
The Curious Case of the Wide-mouth Frog
Thinking Ahead: A Folkloristic Reflection of the Futur 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
The 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
The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus

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