Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes

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Meaning of Folklore: The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
By Alan Dundes

* Publisher: Utah State University Press
* Number Of Pages: 580
* Publication Date: 2007-10-31
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0874216834
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780874216837

Product Description:

The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journals. Brought together for the first time in this volume compiled and edited by Simon Bronner, the selection surveys Dundes’s major ideas and emphases, and is introduced by Bronner with a thorough analysis of Dundes’s long career, his interpretations, and his inestimable contribution to folklore studies.

Runner-up, the Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History, 2009

Summary: collected writings of influential folklorist
Rating: 4

Dundes’s understanding of folklore is not only broad in conception, but also internally mixed, involuted in a way like a finely-woven sweater. The involution is not from confusion or lack of command; but rather an intellectual, methodological, and subject matter circuitry which makes for illumination and depth of insight and relevance. This is why Bronner put the time in to collecting, organizing, and writing knowledgeable introductory essays to the 20 articles divided into the two sections of (1) Structure and Analysis and (2) Worldview and Identi Read more…

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