Interpreting Folklore - Alan A. Dundes

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Résumé :
Often controversial, Alan Dundes's scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. The thirteen essays gathered here by Dundes reflect his concern to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, to use it to increase our understanding of human nature and human culture.

Sommaire:
Preface
AcknowledgmentsWho Are the Folk?
Texture, Text, and Context
Projection in Folklore: A Plea for Psychoanalytic Semiotics
The Curious Case of the Wide-mouth Frog
Thinking Ahead: A Folkloristic Reflection of the Futur 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
The 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
The Hero Pattern and the Life of JesusReferences Notes