Folklore and Literature: Rival Siblings

by Bruce A. Rosenberg

Only a few decades ago, American folklore research focused primarily on narrative folklore with obvious literary connections, such as the ballad and the folktale. In the past twenty years, however, folklore studies have veered sharply away from literature and even from text-based products to focus largely on oral folkloric process. In this thoughtful work, a distinguished scholar describes key ways in which theories and methodologies developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870496816
• ISBN13: 9780870496813
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"