| Description |
xiv, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 263-287. |
| Contents |
Who are the folk? -- Texture, text, and context -- Projection in folklore: a plea for psychoanalytic semiotics -- Curious case of the wide-mouth frog -- Thinking ahead: a folkloristic reflection of the future orientation in American worldview -- Seeing is believing -- Wet and dry, the evil eye: an essay in Indo-European and semitic worldview -- The number three in American culture -- Crowing hen and the Easter bunny: male chauvinism in American folklore -- A psychoanalytic study of the bullroarer -- Into the endzone for a touchdown: a psychoanalytic consideration of American football -- "To love my father all": a psychoanalytic study of the folktale source of King Lear -- Hero pattern and the life of Jesus. |
| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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| Subject |
Folklore -- Methodology.
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Folklore -- Methodology. |
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Folklore -- United States.
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Folklore. |
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United States. |
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Psychoanalysis and folklore.
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Psychoanalysis and folklore. |
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Volkscultuur. |
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Interpretatie. |
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Folklore. |
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Folklore -- Théorie, etc. |
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Folklore -- États-Unis. |
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Folklore -- États-Unis. |
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Culture populaire -- États-Unis. |
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Sociologie de la culture. |
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Folklore -- Teoría, métodos, etc. -- Discursos, ensayos, conferencias
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Folklore -- EE.UU. -- Discursos, ensayos, conferencias
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Dundes, Alan. Interpreting folklore. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1980 (OCoLC)568749136 |
| ISBN |
0253143071 |
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9780253143075 |
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025320240X (paperback) |
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9780253202406 (paperback) |
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