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(0)Linda Dégh
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Description
"Legend and Belief is a descriptive and analytical study of the legend, the most prolific and characteristic form of folklore in contemporary Western civilization. Not that the legend does not have ancient roots; like the tale, the joke, the ballad, the proverb, or mummery, it was part of an archaic, preindustrial tradition. But the legends - as old as conversation and debate about problems of the human condition - has been able to survive the technological...
Series
Monograph volume no. 25
Publications of the American Folklore Society. Bibliographical and special volume 30
Publications of the American Folklore Society. Bibliographical and special volume 30
Publisher
American Folklore Society
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Publisher
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Traditional Storytelling Today explores the diversity of contemporary storytelling traditions and provides a forum for in-depth discussion of interesting facets of contemporary storytelling. Never before has such a wealth of information about storytelling traditions been gathered together. Storytelling is alive and well throughout the world as the approximately 100 articles by more than 90 authors make clear. Most of the essays average 2,000 words...