The flowering thorn international ballad studies
The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
c2003.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430347006719 |
| Summary: | The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with the very features that characterize ballads... or narrative songs. These include an appearance of fragmentation; a wide range of cultural and social referents; complex, evocative symbolic language; and variation. The notable multiformity of meaning, text and tune is mirrored in scholarsh |
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| Item Description: | "A project of the Kommission fur Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (395 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781283267137 9786613267139 9780874214918 |
