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Cargando... Folktales of England (1965)por Katharine M. Briggs, Ruth L. Tongue (Editor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a scholarly collection mean for folklorists, not children or casual readers, though some of the individual stories might be amusing. The foreword gives a history of folktale collecting in England from the 18th century onward, and the introduction discusses the tales in terms of the international tale motif classifications. The tales themselves are organized thematically, with three broad categories (Wonder Tales, Legends, and Jocular tales, the two latter larger categories being subdivided into more meaningful divisions such as saints, giants, ghosts, etc. The tale sources range from medieval to contemporary. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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If wonder tales are not abundant in England, other kinds of folktales thrive: local traditions, historical legends, humorous anecdotes. Many of the favorite tales which English-speaking peoples carry with them from childhood come from a long tradition--stories as familiar to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Spenser, and their many contemporaries as they are to us. "This is a fine, homely feast, immediately intelligble. . . ."--Times Educational Supplement ". . . should be of special concern to Americans since many of the tales are parallel to or the source of our own folk stories."--Choice "This is entertainment, to be sure, but is also part of man's attempts to comprehend his world."--Quartet "Folktales of England is by all odds the most satisfactory general collection of folktales to come out of England since the advent of modern collection and classification techniques."--Ernest W. Baughman, Journal of American Folklore No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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