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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes

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Simon J. Bronner
2007
Published by: Utah State University Press
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The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journals. Brought together for the first time in this volume compiled and edited by Simon Bronner,  the selection surveys Dundes's major ideas and emphases, and is introduced by Bronner with a thorough analysis of Dundes's long career, his interpretations, and his inestimable contribution to folklore studies.

Runner-up, the Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History, 2009

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontmatter

Contents

pp. v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp. vii-xv

Introduction

pp. 1-35

References

pp. 36-50

Part I: Structure and Analysis

1. Folklore as a Mirror of Culture

pp. 53-66

2. The Study of Folklore in Literature and Culture: Identification and Interpretation

pp. 67-76

3. Metafolklore and Oral Literary Criticism

pp. 77-87

4. From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales

pp. 88-106

5. How Indic Parallels to the Ballad of the “Walled-Up Wife” Reveal the Pitfalls of Parochial Nationalistic Folkloristics

pp. 107-122

6. Structuralism and Folklore

pp. 123-153

7. On Game Morphology: A Study of the Structure of Non-Verbal Folklore

pp. 154-163

8. The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory

pp. 164-176

Part II: Worldview and Identity

9. Folk Ideas as Units of Worldview

pp. 179-195

10. As the Crow Flies: A Straightforward Study of Lineal Worldview in American Folk Speech

pp. 196-210

11. Much Ado About “Sweet Bugger All”: Getting to the Bottom of a Puzzle in British Folk Speech

pp. 211-228

12. Grouping Lore: Scientists and Musicians

pp. 229-248

13. Medical Speech and Professional Identity

pp. 249-269

Part III: Symbol and Mind

14. Getting the Folk and the Lore Together

pp. 273-284

15. Gallus as Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Cross-Cultural Consideration of the Cockfight as Fowl Play

pp. 285-318

16. The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs: Towards a Method of Analyzing Folktales

pp. 319-326

17. Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male

pp. 327-351

18. Theses on Feces: Scatological Analysis

pp. 352-381

19. The Ritual Murder or Blood Libel Legend: A Study of Anti-Semitic Victimization through Projective Inversion

pp. 382-409

20. On the Psychology of Collecting Folklore

pp. 410-425

Index

pp. 427-443
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