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The British Traditional Ballad in North America

By: Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America

By: Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick

Tristram Potter Coffin’s The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide. Roger deV. Renwick’s supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad’s story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America.

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University of Texas Press

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0292735073

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9780292735071

English Folk Poetry

Structure and Meaning

By: Roger deV. Renwick

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English Folk Poetry

Structure and Meaning

By: Roger deV. Renwick

Drawing on the long tradition of folklore study, Roger deV. Renwick examines three genres: traditional English folksongs, local songs of regional interest, and working-class poetry. In the span of time that extends from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, he finds govern world views underlying a large sampling of poems related by common language, imagery, or topic, and then shows how these world views relate to the everyday lives and beliefs of the poetry's makers and users. There is, in addition, a pattern of historical continuity that links the rural folksongs of the eighteenth century with the part-rural, part-urban local songs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and with the fully urban working-class poetry of the present day. English Folk Poetry is an immensely important contribution to folklore scholarship in its examination of contemporary working-class poetry, in its approach to questions of tacit meaning, and in its exploration of the relationship of inferential meanings to real, everyday lives.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512806064

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9781512806069

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

By: Roger deVeer Renwick

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Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

By: Roger deVeer Renwick

A wealth of texts of British and Anglo/North American folksong has long been accessible in both published and archival sources. For two centuries these texts have energized scholarship. Yet in the past three decades this material has languished, as literary theory has held sway over textual study. In this crusading book Roger deV. Renwick argues that the business of folksong scholars is to explain folksong: folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing. To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparative analysis. In the first, on British traditional ballads in the West Indies, he shows how even the best of folklorists can produce an unconvincing study when theory is overvalued and texts are slighted. In the second he navigates the many manifestations of a single Anglo/American ballad, "The Rambling Boy," to reveal striking differences between a British diasporic strain on the one hand and a southern American, post-Civil War strain on the other. The third essay treats the poetics of a very old, extremely widespread, but never before formalized trans-Atlantic genre, the catalogue. Next is Renwick's claim that recentering folksong studies in our rich textual databanks requires that canonical items be identified accurately. He argues that "Oh, Willie," a song thought to be a simple variety of "Butcher's Boy," is in fact a distinct composition. In the final essay Renwick looks at the widespread popularity of "The Crabfish," sung today throughout the English-speaking world but with roots in a naughty tale found in both continental Europe and Asia. With such specific case studies as these, Renwick justifies his argument that the basic tenets of folklore textual scholarship continue to yield new insights.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1604738189

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Washington 1990

By: Roger Piantadosi,Bantam Travel Bks,Bantam Travel Books Staff

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Washington 1990

By: Roger Piantadosi,Bantam Travel Bks,Bantam Travel Books Staff

The District of Columbia is both a sophisticated political and governmental capital, and an eminently liveable city with a slightly sleepy southern flavor. This guide includes a restaurant section, business and luxury hotels, color maps, and more.

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Bantam

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0553348302

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9780553348309

Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1994

By: Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1994

By: Roger Ebert

The only video guide with full-length movie reviews from a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic. This reference features reviews of over 1,200 films (150 of which are new to this edition); interviews with stars and directors of movies new to video; a comprehensive index by title, stars, and director; and more.

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0836262441

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America

By: Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick

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English Folk Poetry

Structure and Meaning

By: Roger deV. Renwick

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Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

By: Roger deV. Renwick

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Sea Crabs and Wicked Youths

By: Roger deV. Renwick

Folklorists must liberate the material's own voice rather than impose theories that are personally compelling or appealing." "To that end, Renwick presents a case study in each of five essays to demonstrate the scholarly value of approaching this material through close readings and comparatives analysis."--BOOK JACKET.

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The British Traditional Ballad in North America

The British Traditional Ballad in North America

English Folk Poetry

English Folk Poetry

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Washington 1990

Washington 1990

Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1994

Roger Ebert's Video Companion, 1994

The British Traditional Ballad in North America

The British Traditional Ballad in North America

English Folk Poetry

English Folk Poetry

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

Recentering Anglo/American Folksong

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