Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Mï¿½rchen

Name: Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Mï¿½rchen
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ISBN: 9781878318756

ISBN-10: 1878318756

ISBN-13: 9781878318756

Edition: 2001

Authors: Carl Lindahl

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Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword


A Tale of Verbal Economy: "Stiff Dick"



Introduction: Representing and Recovering the British- and Irish-American Marchen



Two Tellings of "Merrywise": 1949 and 2000



Two Versions of "Rawhead and Bloodybones" from the Farmer-Muncy Family



Sounding a Shy Tradition: Oral and Written Styles of American Mountain Marchen



Two Transcriptions of "Jack and the Bull," by Polly Johnson



Storybook Style: "Jack and the Green Man"



Is Old Jack Really Richard Chase?



A Model of Appropriate Behavior? "The Ship That Sailed on Land and Water"



Jack and His Masters: Real Worlds and Tale Worlds in Newfoundland Folktales



In Memoriam: Herbert Halpert



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