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... mother under a holly tree . P. W. Joyce did not identify the riddle and he even commented upon what he called " the delighful inconsequences of riddle and answer " . Yet a trained folk- lorist knows immediately that the riddle is ...
... mother under a holly tree . P. W. Joyce did not identify the riddle and he even commented upon what he called " the delighful inconsequences of riddle and answer " . Yet a trained folk- lorist knows immediately that the riddle is ...
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... mother leaves her seven children , named after the days of the week ( Propp's function I , " One of the members of a family is absent from home " still bearing in mind that Propp's morphological analysis was made of folktales and not ...
... mother leaves her seven children , named after the days of the week ( Propp's function I , " One of the members of a family is absent from home " still bearing in mind that Propp's morphological analysis was made of folktales and not ...
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... mother who is cherry or George's father's phallus that is cherry , the upshot is the same inasmuch as in either case , George has succeeded in preventing his father from engaging in sexual activity . If George's mother were a virgin ...
... mother who is cherry or George's father's phallus that is cherry , the upshot is the same inasmuch as in either case , George has succeeded in preventing his father from engaging in sexual activity . If George's mother were a virgin ...
Contents
The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory | 17 |
Identification and Interpretation | 28 |
Metafolklore and Oral Literary Criticism | 50 |
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