Child's Unfinished Masterpiece
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Mary Ellen Brown
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection
Medievalist Comics and the American Century
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Chris Bishop
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-25 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: David Atkinson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-01 - Publisher: Routledge

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In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ -
The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Michael C. Cohen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Poetry occupied a complex position in the social life of nineteenth-century America. While some readers found in poems a resource for aesthetic pleasure and the
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Sarah Dunnigan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-20 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression - folk narrative, ballad, legend, song, broadsides and chapbooks.