Acknowledgments | ix | ||
On Literary and Artistic Uses of Folklore: An Introduction | 1 | (22) | |
1. Riddles of Love and Death: Two American Novels | 23 | (30) | |
2. Somebody Always Gets Boiled: Reworking "The Robber Bridegroom" | 53 | (20) | |
3. Falling in Love with All Its Lore: Adapting "A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales" for the Stage | 73 | (20) | |
4. Folk Rhetoric, Literary Strategy: Proverbs in Fiction | 93 | (24) | |
5. Pageant, Death, Initiation: The Ambiguity of Ritual | 117 | (32) | |
6. The Threads of Tradition: Quilts as Multivalent Symbols | 149 | (34) | |
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7. Cultural Objects, Personal Images: Frida Kahlo, Clarence John Laughlin, and Folklore | 183 | (34) | |
8. Finding a Sense of Place: Folk Ideas and the Lore of Place in Written and Visual Arts Texts | 217 | (22) | |
9. Not into Cold Space: The "Novelization" of Folklore Collecting | 239 | (26) | |
Conclusion: Old Meanings, New Meanings | 265 | (10) | |
Notes | 275 | (44) | |
Index | 319 |
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