"This book shows how folklore-magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants-is still alive and well in the modern mass media. . . . contains a wealth of facts and observations with which to conjure." -Journal of Communication "Degh brings her decades of expertise in folk narrative to bear in this well-researched, provocative study of the interrelationship between traditional processes of folk narrative performances and modern mass media. . . . Highly recommended . . . " -Choice "Spanning folk cultural developments as old as feudalism and as new as today's TV ad,...
"This book shows how folklore-magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants-is still alive and well in the modern mass media. ....
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, and mummery, it was also a part of an archaic preindustrial tradition. But the legend--as old as conversation and debate, and similarly questioning the human condition--was able to survive technological...
Eminent folklorist Linda DTgh offers the first English collection of tales told by the now famous Hungarian storyteller Palk= in the late 1940s and early 1950s. They are traditional narratives full of kings and castles, wizards and magic animals, clever daughters and charmed sons. DTgh correlates th
Eminent folklorist Linda DTgh offers the first English collection of tales told by the now famous Hungarian storyteller Palk= in the late 1940s and ea...
