Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays

ISBN-13: 9780824072711 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 282 str.

Cathy Lynn Preston

Opis

The essays study folkloric traditions and culture from a postmodern, inclusive perspective. Though the introduction has a pure deconstructionist tone, the contributors convey real and readable engagement with their subjects which are sometimes highly original: Chuck Berry's method acting, postmode

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Introduction, Cathy Lynn Preston; Part 1 The Literary; Chapter 1 Politics and Indigenous Theory in Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Yellow Woman” and Sandra Cisneros’ “Woman Hollering Creek”, Alesia García; Chapter 2 Graffiti as Story and Act, Danielle M. Roemer; Chapter 3 Folklore and the Literature of Exile, Mark E. Workman; Chapter 4 Writing the Hybrid Body: Thomas Hardy and the Ethnographic “Money Shot”, Cathy Lynn Preston; Chapter 5 “Writing” and “Voice”: The Articulations of Gender in Folklore and Literature, Cristina Bacchilega; Chapter 6 Social Protest, Folklore, and Feminist Ideology in Chicana Prose and Poetry, María Herrera-Sobek; Part 2 The Traditional, Vernacular, and Local; Chapter 7 “Sidebar Excursions to Nowhere”: The Vernacular Storytelling of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray, John D. Dorst; Chapter 8 Shakespeare’s Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women, Clover Williams, Jean R. Freedman; Chapter 9 Chuck Berry as Postmodern Composer-Performer, Peter Narváez; Chapter 10 Pieces for a Shabby Hut, Lee Haring; Chapter 11 Slave Spirituals: Allegories of the Recovery from Pain, Laura O’Connor; Chapter 12 Re-presentations of (Im)moral Behavior in the Middle English Non-Cycle Play “Mankind”, Michael J. Preston; Chapter 13 Oralities, and Literacies]: Comments on the Relationships of Contemporary Folkloristics and Literary Studies, Eric L. Montenyohl;

O autorze

Cathy Lynn Preston