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Counting-Out Rhymes

A Dictionary

University of Texas Press

A definitive compendium of children’s counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980.

  • Copyright year: 1980
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The British Traditional Ballad in North America

University of Texas Press

Centering on the theme of story variation, this 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.

  • Copyright year: 1977
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Folklore Genres

Edited by Dan Ben-Amos
University of Texas Press

A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.

  • Copyright year: 1976
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Amorous Games

A Critical Edition of Les adevineaux amoureux

University of Texas Press

A collection of medieval French texts whose principal unifying force is the compiler's aim to provide a manual of conversation and entertainment for polite society.

  • Copyright year: 1974
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Folklore Methodology

Formulated by Julius Krohn and Expanded by Nordic Researchers

By Kaarle Krohn; Translated by Roger L. Welsch
University of Texas Press

Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials and became the handbook for the great Finnish School of folklore research.

  • Copyright year: 1971
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Jump-rope Rhymes

A Dictionary

Edited by Roger D. Abrahams; Introduction by Brian Sutton-Smith
University of Texas Press

A collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes.

  • Copyright year: 1969
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Morphology of the Folktale

Second Edition

By V. Propp; Translated by Laurence Scott; Edited by Louis A. Wagner
University of Texas Press

The classic work on forms of the folktale.

  • Copyright year: 1968
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The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

Edited by Bruce Jackson
University of Texas Press

Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Folk-Songs of the Southern United States

University of Texas Press

An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Indian Tales of North America

An Anthology for the Adult Reader

University of Texas Press

Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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