The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print

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Indiana University Press, 1984 - Social Science - 244 pages
Offers a history, theory, and methodology of textmaking from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book examines the implications of performance theory for textmaking and constructs a model of an ideal, performance-centered text based on aesthetic field theory. It is useful for folklore studies, oral interpretation, sociolinguistics, and others.

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ELIZABETH C. FINE is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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