Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Marchen: And Other North American Marchen

Mary Ellen Brown

4/5 ( ratings)

This volume is about North American Marchen, a vernacular art form that is often strangely ignored or misconstrued. At the same time, the vitality and appeal of the genre are evidenced by its persistent presentation as written literature. The essays in this volume reexamine common assumptions about "magic" tales and their tellers, reconsidering the performance, collection, transcription, publication, and interpretation of narratives that continue to live orally--especially in the private realm--as one mechanism of intergenerational communication or as a symbolic expression of worldview.

In addition to four interpretive essays, six segments focus on storytellers and their transcribed narratives, accompanied by introductions that place them in context. Some segments compare editing practices or narrative styles; others represent the first publication of contemporary narratives or tales that have long lain in archives, unheard and unavailable. All attest to the skill of the tellers and the artistry of their creations.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Release: November 01, 2001

ISBN: 1878318756

ISBN 13: 9781878318756

Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Marchen: And Other North American Marchen

Mary Ellen Brown

4/5 ( ratings)

This volume is about North American Marchen, a vernacular art form that is often strangely ignored or misconstrued. At the same time, the vitality and appeal of the genre are evidenced by its persistent presentation as written literature. The essays in this volume reexamine common assumptions about "magic" tales and their tellers, reconsidering the performance, collection, transcription, publication, and interpretation of narratives that continue to live orally--especially in the private realm--as one mechanism of intergenerational communication or as a symbolic expression of worldview.

In addition to four interpretive essays, six segments focus on storytellers and their transcribed narratives, accompanied by introductions that place them in context. Some segments compare editing practices or narrative styles; others represent the first publication of contemporary narratives or tales that have long lain in archives, unheard and unavailable. All attest to the skill of the tellers and the artistry of their creations.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Release: November 01, 2001

ISBN: 1878318756

ISBN 13: 9781878318756

More books from Mary Ellen Brown

Beverly Hills, 90210: Television, Gender, and Identity

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Television and Women′s Culture: The Politics of the Popular

SunLand: The History of One Sequim Community

Soap Opera and Women′s Talk: The Pleasure of Resistance (Communication and Human Values)

Rate this book!

Write a review?