Re-situating folklore
Subtitle: folk contexts and twentieth-century literature and art
By: Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan.
Contributors: Jordan, R. A.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Folklore -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Art, American -- 20th century.; Folklore in literature.; Folklore in art.
Description: "Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan examine the ways writers "re-situate" folklore into their literary texts. The authors then reach beyond literature into a variety of visual art "texts" as well. They further consider literary influences and texts as sources of folk ideas. Analysis of twentieth-century novels including those of Graham Greene, Harper Lee, and Chinua Achebel, "popular" and "high" art from postcards and local cartoons to Diego Rivera's morals and the drama of Lucy Maycock reveals how the rich interaction between folklore and various visual and literary texts has transformed them all. Other artists considered include Margaret Atwood, Frida Kahlo, E.M. Forster, and Alice Walker.

Re-Situating Folklore offers new ways of conceptualising the methods by which artists use folklore even as it poses questions about the larger issue of why folklore appeals to those outside the groups who actually create and circulate it in tradition."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: On literary and artistic uses of folklore : an introduction; title: Riddles of love and death : two American novels; title: Somebody always gets boiled : reworking "the robber bridegroom"; title: Falling in love with all its lore : adapting "a collection of Louisiana folk tales" for the stage; title: Folk rhetoric, literary strategy : proverbs in fiction; title: Pageant, death, initiation : the ambiguity of ritual; title: The threads of tradition : quilts as multivalent symbols / co-authored by Susan Roach; title: Cultural objects, personal images : Frida Kahlo, Clarence John Laughlin, and folklore; title: Finding a sense of place : folk ideas and the lore of place in written and visual arts texts; title: Not into cold space : the "novelization" of folklore collecting; title: Conclusion: old meanings, new meanings.