The British Traditional Ballad in North AmericaUniversity of Texas Press, 1977 - 297 pages Tristram Potter Coffin’s The British Traditional Ballad in North America, published in 1950, became recognized as the standard reference to the published material on the Child ballad in North America. Centering on the theme of story variation, the 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. Roger deV. Renwick’s supplement to The British Traditional Ballad in North America provides a thorough review of all sources of North American ballad materials published from 1963, the date of the last revision of the original volume, to 1977. The references, which include published text fragments and published title lists of items in archival collections, are arranged according to each ballad’s story variations. Textual and thematic comparisons among ballads in the British and American tradition are made throughout. In his introductory essay Renwick synthesizes the various theoretical approaches to the phenomenon of variation that have appeared in scholarly publications since 1963 and provides examples from texts referred to in the bibliographical guide itself. The supplement, like its parent work, is an invaluable reference tool for the study of variation in ballad form, content, and style. Together with the reprinted text of the 1963 edition, the supplement provides an exhaustive bibliography to the literature on the British traditional ballad in North America. |
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... look at an actual text . And versions that borrow material from other songs have been considered to create new story types only where I feel that the borrowing has affected the mood or plot of the original song . A lot has happened in ...
... look no more for him . She shows him the highway by Tay and he departs . Her father suspects her when she returns home , but she denies anyone has been with her . Examples : Barry . Discussion : The Maine fragment ends upon the denial ...
... look upon it , and the corpse replies that it cannot lie down to save her and will not let her gaze at it . Roberts , Sang Branch Settlers , 95–96 . Fragments & Title Lists : Brown , NC Flklre , IV , 57-62 , 64-65 , 67 , 69 / Burton ...
Contents
Ballad in America 22 | 20 |
The Traditional Ballad as an Art Form | 164 |
Preface | 189 |
Copyright | |
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The British Traditional Ballad in North America Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick Limited preview - 2014 |
The British Traditional Ballad in North America Tristram Potter Coffin,Roger deV. Renwick No preview available - 1977 |