Polish traditional folklore : the magic of time /

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Author / Creator:	Brzozowska-Krajka, Anna.
Imprint:	Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1998.
Description:	259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	East European monographs no. 498
Subject:	Folklore -- Poland. Tales -- Poland. Day -- Folklore. Night -- Folklore. Time -- Folklore. Fables, Polish. Folk literature, Polish. Literature and folklore. Tales. Time in literature. Poland. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3158692

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ISBN:	0880333952
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-252) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Chapter I. Time and order. Bi-dimensional structure of folk temporality
Chapter II. The cosmogonic myth and the folkloric opposition of Night-Day
Chapter III. Civitas Dei and Civitas Diaboli, or diurnal active symbols and nocturnal inactive symbols
Chapter IV. The magic of a good beginning--the mediating structure of daybreak
Chapter V. Apparently reversed symmetry--the mediating structure of nightfall
Chapter VI. The time of the center and the Superior Realm (the midday culmination)
Chapter VII. Between fear and hope (the midnight culmination)
Chapter VIII. Natural markers of organization of time and the folkloric vision of temporal artifacts
Conclusion
Sources and their abbreviations
Select bibliography
Index of names

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