The Flowering Thorn : International Ballad Studies / / edited by Thomas A. McKean.
The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2003. ©2003. |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
| Notes: | "A project of the Kommission für Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute." |
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| Summary: | The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with the very features that characterize ballads... or narrative songs. These include an appearance of fragmentation; a wide range of cultural and social referents; complex, evocative symbolic language; and variation. The notable multiformity of meaning, text and tune is mirrored in scholarsh |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1283267136 9786613267139 0874214912 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Thomas A. McKean. |