Narratives in society : a performer-centered study of narration /
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| Author / Creator: | Dégh, Linda. |
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| Imprint: | Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica ; Bloomington, Ind. : Distributed in North America by Indiana University Press, 1995. |
| Description: | 401 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | FF communications no. 255 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2399529 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What Can Gyula Ortutay and the Budapest School Offer to Contemporary Students of Narrative?
- 1. The Creative Practices of Storytellers
- 2. Biology of Storytelling
- 3. The Nature of Women's Storytelling
- 4. Manipulation of Personal Experience
- 5. The Legend Teller
- 6. The World of European Marchen-Tellers
- 7. The Magic Tale and Its Magic
- 8. The Approach to Worldview in Folk Narrative Study
- 9. How Do Storytellers Interpret the Snakeprince Tale?
- 10. The Crack on the Red Goblet, or Truth in Modern Legend / Andrew Vazsonyi
- 11. The Hypothesis of Multi-Conduit Transmission in Folklore / Andrew Vazsonyi
- 12. Is There a Difference between the Folklore Of Urban and Rural Americans?
- 13. Processes of Legend Formation
- 14. Does the Word 'Dog' Bite? Ostensive Action: A Means of Legend-Telling / Andrew Vazsonyi
- 15. What Did the Grimm Brothers Give to and Take from the Folk?
- 16. Symbiosis of Joke and Legend: A Case of Conversational Folklore
- 17. Two Old World Narrators on the Telephone
- 18. The Jokes of an Irishman in a Multiethnic Urban Environment
- 19. The Legend Conduit
- 20. Satanic Child Abuse in a Blue House.