Research Catalog

Title

Studies in folklore : in honor of Distinguished Service Professor Stith Thompson / W. Edson Richmond, editor.

Publication

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1957.

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Details

Additional Authors

Richmond, W. Edson (Winthrop Edson), 1916-1994

Description

xv, 270 pages portrait, music; 24 cm

Series Statement

• Indiana University publications. Folklore series, no. 9
• Indiana University. Indiana University publications. Folklore series ; no. 9.

Subject

• Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
• Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976
• Thompson, Stith
• Folklore
• Folklore
• folklore (culture-related concept)

Genre/Form

• Folklore.
• Folk literature
• Folklore
• Folk literature.
• Littérature populaire.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The brave tailor in Danish tradition by L. Bødker -- The sisters and the troll: notes to a folktale by R. Th. Christiansen -- Celtic tales from Cape Breton by M. Leach -- A medieval story and its Irish version by J. Szövérffy -- The emergence myth in native North America by E. Wheeler -- Voegelin and R.W. Moore -- Hugh Miller, pioneer Scottish folklorist by R.M. Dorson -- Classifying performance in the study of verbal folklore by W.H. Jansen -- Folklore in the novels of Thomas Deloney by W.E. Roberts -- Toward a statistical contingency method in folklore research by T.A. Sebeok -- Toward a definiation of formal style, with examples from Shawnee by C.F. Voegelin and J. Yegerlehner -- A miscellany of tune notes by S.P. Bayard -- Some Norwegian contributions to a Danish ballad by W.E. Richmond -- Abraham Lincoln's When Adam was created by F.L. Utley -- American analogues of the couvade by W.D. Hand -- The paganism of the Norsemen by N. Lid -- The feast of Saint Martin in Ireland by S.O. Súilleabháin -- Proverbial materials in Edward Eggleston, The Hoosier school master by A. Taylor.

LCCN

57063863

OCLC

• ocm00492146
• 492146
• SCSB-1309552

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library