Re-situating folklore : folk contexts and twentieth-century literature and art / Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan.

Author/creator De Caro, F. A.
Other author Jordan, R. A. (Rosan A.)
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, ©2004.
Descriptionx, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents On literary and artistic uses of folklore : an introduction -- Riddles of love and death : two American novels -- Somebody always gets boiled : reworking "the robber bridegroom" -- Falling in love with all its lore : adapting "A collection of Louisiana folk tales" for the stage -- Folk rhetoric, literary strategy : proverbs in fiction -- Pageant, death, initiation : the ambiguity of ritual -- The threads of tradition : quilts as multivalent symbols / co-authored by Susan Roach -- Cultural objects, personal images : Frida Kahlo, Clarence John Laughlin, and folklore -- Finding a sense of place : folk ideas and the lore of place in written and visual arts texts -- Not into cold space : the "novelization" of folklore collecting -- Conclusion: old meanings, new meanings.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-317) and index.
LCCN 2003018424
ISBN1572332484 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS228.F64 D4 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold