Explores the nature and complexity of women's coded acts. The volume focuses chiefly on North America and on women's folklore in areas ranging from mothering, housework, crafts and healing to music, ballads, and storytelling.
Explores the nature and complexity of women's coded acts. The volume focuses chiefly on North America and on women's folklore in areas ranging from mo...
The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from actual performances by tellers and eight interpretive essays by leading folktale scholars.
The "two worlds" in the book's title refer to the Jack tales' popularity first among traditional Appalachian taletellers and now among storytelling revivalists. The tellers included in this volume represent both worlds. Unlike previous...
The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in...
Say Little, Do Much Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century Sioban Nelson "A convincing picture."--New York Times "A convincing picture."--New York Times "The most significant contribution to the literature on nursing history in decades."--Journal of Community Nursing "Required reading for all nurse historians who seek to understand the difficult and complex role of religious women who served nursing prior to our modern era."--Nursing History Review "Well-researched, scholarly, clearly written, and nicely analyzed, this work makes a significant...
Say Little, Do Much Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century Sioban Nelson "A convincing picture."--New York Times "A convincing ...
What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, -Justice John- Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of the project, these stories lay untouched in the libraries of the University of Virginia. Now, folklorist Thomas E. Barden brings to light these delightful tales, most of which have never been in print. Virginia Folk Legends presents the first valid...
What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, -Justice John- Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are...
Taking the aged character Nestor in the Iliad and Odyssey as an archetype of the traditional oral poet, examines the portrayal of him to reveal ancient Greek concepts of poetic memory, narrative authority, and the tension between tradition and individuality. Finds that oral narrative can become self
Taking the aged character Nestor in the Iliad and Odyssey as an archetype of the traditional oral poet, examines the portrayal of him to reveal ancien...
From slave times to the present the proverb has been a mainstay in African-American communication. Such sayings as "Hard times make a monkey eat red pepper when he don't care for black," "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice," and "Nothing ruins a duck but its bill" convey not only axiomatic impact but also profound contextual meanings.
This study of African-American proverbs is the first to probe deeply into these meanings and contexts. Sw. Anand Prahlad's interest in proverbs dates back to his own childhood in rural Virginia when he listened to his great grandmother's stories....
From slave times to the present the proverb has been a mainstay in African-American communication. Such sayings as "Hard times make a monkey eat re...
