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Title: Telling Reality : Folklore Studies in Memory of Bengt Holbek
Description: Copenhagen / Turku, Nordic Institute of Folklore, 1993. orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, 294 pp. Series: Dept. of Folklore, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Folklore Studies, 1 / NIF Publications, 26.. ISBN: 9529724047. Minor rubbing. Name on half-title. VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers. Includes: Once upon a time : personal reminiscences of Bengt Holbeck / Iørn Piø -- Telling reality : an analysis of a multilevelled narrative / Birgitte Rørbye -- Bibliography of the published writings of Bengt Holbek 1958-1992 / ed. by Michael Chesnutt -- Transforming the monster : notes on Bengt Holbek’s interpretation of Kong Lindorm / John Lindow -- The parson’s wife : an analysis of a tale recorded by Evald Tang Kristensen / Bengt af Klintberg -- Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten : ein Märchen und seine Interpreten / Hans-Jörg Uther -- The study of folktale repertoires / Reimund Kvideland --A blind storyteller’s perception of reality / Gun Herranen -- Folktales and reality : some remarks on the "reflection theory" as applied to folktales /Michèle Simonsen -- On the understanding of folk legends / Ulf Palmenfelt -- The fairy tale pattern of The odyssey / Minna Skafte Jensen -- The epic laws of folk narrative / Brynjulf Alver -- The folklore of hurt / Lee Haring -- Die Geschichte der Kreuznägel : Version und Gegenversion? : Ü berlegungen zu Roma-Varianten / Ines Köhler-Zülch -- The demise of historicism in Nordic folktale research / Michael Chesnutt -- Is the comparative method out of date? / Leea Virtanen -- It’s all Greek to me : the invention of Pan-Hellenic dances and other national stories / Lisbet Torp.

Keywords: 9529724047 Folklore, Folk Tales, Folktales, Oral Literature, Literary History, Criticism, Ethnology, ,

Price: US$ 59.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS025736I