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Contributors Include J. Frank Dobie, Ruth Dodson, Soledad Perez,
Wilson M. Hudson And Jose Cisneros.
This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
Contributing Authors Include Stow Persons, Gordon Mills, Elton
Miles And Others. Papers Read At The Fourth Annual Meeting Of The
American Studies Association Of Texas At Houston, Texas, December
5, 1959.
Contributing Authors Include Stow Persons, Gordon Mills, Elton
Miles And Others. Papers Read At The Fourth Annual Meeting Of The
American Studies Association Of Texas At Houston, Texas, December
5, 1959.
Contains Three Papers Titled: Witchcraft In The Novels Of Sir
Walter Scott; Demonology In The Novels Of Scott And Scott's Theory
And Practice Concerning The Use Of The Supernatural In Prose
Fiction In Relation To The Chronology Of The Waverly Novels.
Contains Three Papers Titled: Witchcraft In The Novels Of Sir
Walter Scott; Demonology In The Novels Of Scott And Scott's Theory
And Practice Concerning The Use Of The Supernatural In Prose
Fiction In Relation To The Chronology Of The Waverly Novels.
A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how
Texans of many races have shaped their lives and shaped the state.
Most of the essays among the twenty-nine making up this collection
salute taletellers, furnishing demonstrations by way of tall tales
and short sayings, ghost stories and family stories, anecdotes of
frontier preachers and hound dogs, and superstitions and folk
medicine. Add tales of outlaws, buried-treasure searches, ethnic
lore localized in the state, and many other subjects, and you have
something to suit anybody's taste. A Publication of the Texas
Folklore Society.
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The Golden Log (Paperback)
Mody C Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, Allen Maxwell
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R504
Discovery Miles 5 040
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Like the more than a dozen other contributions in this volume, "The
Golden Log" typifies the combined universality and fresh and
authentic regional flavor of southwestern lore and legend. The
Texas Folklore Society offers these tales of early Texas days, told
as they were told of old.
A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society.
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Coyote Wisdom (Paperback)
J. Frank Dobie, Mody C Boatright, Harry H. Ransom
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R645
Discovery Miles 6 450
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This especially substantial folkish son-of-a-gun stew concocted by
J. Frank Dobie and associates is distinguished by a wide variety of
materials, ranging from the simplest recording of single items,
like anecdotes, folk remedies or sayings, through the skillfully
retold primitive legend, to the scientific, though quite idiomatic,
anthropological report, and to the scholarly analysis of the
philosophy of the folk. The theme and hero of the volume, Old Man
Coyote, is animal and folk character. Indian legends are well
represented in Coyote Wisdom, a Publication of the Texas Folklore
Society.
A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title
comes from J. Frank Dobie's chapter on "The Traveling Anecdote."
Also included are Roy Bedichek on "Folklore in Natural History;"
"The Names of Western Wild Animals," by George D. Hendricks; "Bonny
Barbara Allen," by Joseph W. Hendren; "Aunt Cordie's Ax and Other
Motifs in Oil," by Mody C. Boatright; "The Western Ballad and the
Russian Ballada," by Robert C. Stephenson; "The Love Tragedy in
Texas-Mexican Balladry," by Americo Paredes; "Emerson and the
Language of the Folk," by John Q. Anderson; "Tales of
Neiman-Marcus," by James Howard; "The Devil in the Big Bend," by
Elton Miles; and others.
The state of Texas is fortunate in possessing a rich and varied
folklore. When white settlers from the Old South came in bringing
their African slaves, they found the Mexicans in possession, and
before them there were the Indians. These four racial groups
maintained their separate identities, languages, religions, and
cultures, making their folkways and folklore distinct and
characteristic. This volume is composed of materials published
originally in the first twenty-five volumes of the Texas Folklore
Society.
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