Studies in folklore, in honor of Distinguished Service Professor Stith Thompson
By: edited by W. Edson Richmond.
Contributors: Thompson, Stith, 1885-
Publisher: Greenwood Press; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Thompson, Stith, 1885-; Folklore.; Folk literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Original ed. issued as no. 9 of the Indiana University publications. Folklore series.
Table of contents: title: Biographical sketch of Stith Thompson.; title: The brave tailor in Danish tradition, by L. Bødker.; title: The sisters and the troll: notes to a folktale, by R. T. Christiansen.; title: Celtic tales from Cape Breton, by M. Leach.; title: A medieval story and its Irish version, by J. Szövérffy.; title: The emergence myth in native North America, by E. Wheeler-Voegelin and R. W. Moore.; title: Hugh Miller, pioneer Scottish folklorist, by R. M. Dorson.; title: Classifying performance in the study of verbal folklore, by W. H. Jansen.; title: Folklore in the novels of Thomas Deloney, by W. E. Roberts.; title: Toward a statistical contingency method in folklore research, by T. A. Sebeok.; title: Toward a definition of formal style, with examples from Shawnee, by C. F. Voegelin and J. Yegerlehner.; title: A miscellany of tune notes, by S. P. Bayard.; title: Some Norwegian contributions to a Danish ballad, by W. E. Richmond.; title: Abraham Lincoln's When Adam was created, by F. L. Utely.; title: American analogues of the couvade, by W. D. Hand.; title: The paganism of the Norsemen, by N. Lid.; title: The feast of Saint Martin in Ireland, by S. Ó. Súilleabháin.; title: Proverbial materials in Edward Eggleston, The Hoosier schoolmaster, by A. Taylor.