Flowering thorn, The: international ballad studies

• Other Authors: McKean, Thomas A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Colorado State University. Libraries 2007
• Subjects: Ballads > History and criticism; Folk literature > History and criticism; Sheila; McCarthy; Atkinson; Luisa; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87770

Edited by Thomas A. McKean. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Now she's fairly altered her meaning: Interpreting narrative song -- Healing the spider's bite: "Ballad therapy" and Tarantismo / Luisa del Giudice -- Music, charm, and seduction in British traditional songs and ballads / Vic Gammon -- "Places she knew very well": the symbolic economy of women's travels in traditional Newfoundland ballads / Pauline Greenhill -- A good man is hard to find: positive masculinity in the ballads sung by Scottish women / Lynn Wollstadt -- Jesting with edge tools: the dynamics of a fragmentary ballad tradition / Gerald Porter -- The servant problem in child ballad / Roger deV. Renwick -- May Day and mayhem: portraits of a holiday in eighteenth-century Dublin ballads / Cozette Griffin Kremer -- Malign forces that can punish and pardon: structure and motif -- An oddity of Catalan folk songs and ballad / Simon Furey -- "Barbara Allen" and "The Gypsy Laddie": single-rhyme ballads in the child corpus / William Bernard McCarthy -- The motif of poisoning in Ukrainian ballads / Larysa Vakhnina -- Contexts and interpretations: the walled-up wife ballad and other related texts / Nicolae Constantinescu -- Recapturing the journey: cruxes of context, version, and transmission -- The life and times of Rosie Anderson / Sheila Douglas -- Scholar, Antischolar: Sir Alexander Gray's translations of the Danish ballads / Larry Syndergaard -- "George Collins" in Hampshire / David Atkinson -- From France to Brazil via Germany and Portugal: the meandering journey of a traditional ballad / J.J. Dias Marques -- "The White Fisher": an illegitimate child ballad from Aberdeenshire / Julia C. Bishop.