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Alan Dundes. between recording texts and recording the use of texts a critical one . Folklore is used primarily as a means of communication , and it is as communication that it needs to be studied . Yet this is virtually impossible with ...
Alan Dundes. between recording texts and recording the use of texts a critical one . Folklore is used primarily as a means of communication , and it is as communication that it needs to be studied . Yet this is virtually impossible with ...
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... texts . If con- text is mentioned , it is discussed in general terms , not in terms specific to given texts . Thus , for example , in an important article on the " dozens " , the characteristic form of verbal dueling among American ...
... texts . If con- text is mentioned , it is discussed in general terms , not in terms specific to given texts . Thus , for example , in an important article on the " dozens " , the characteristic form of verbal dueling among American ...
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... texts with- out commentary which line library shelves and archives . These texts may be taken back into the field and folk explication de texte's sought . Our goal for fu- ture folklore collection should be fewer texts and more contexts ...
... texts with- out commentary which line library shelves and archives . These texts may be taken back into the field and folk explication de texte's sought . Our goal for fu- ture folklore collection should be fewer texts and more contexts ...
Contents
The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory | 17 |
Identification and Interpretation | 28 |
Metafolklore and Oral Literary Criticism | 50 |
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