Resources for groups and paper-writing

Resources for groups and paper-writing

Some General Reources, Not in Reserves:

Journals

Western Folklore

Folklore

Journal of American Folklore

Websites

For a list of useful folklore web addresses, go to the web page for Enl 133 through http://cai.ucdavis.edu/vimages/enl133.html

Other Resources Available in Reserves:

The following items are all on one-day reserve at the Shields Library Reserve desk. These works are meant to get you started in the research of your topic. They are not a complete or definitive list of everything you will need to create a group project. Each of these books will have bibliographies that may prove helpful as well. We have grouped the works roughly by subject: some books will be useful for more than one topic, so be sure to read through the entire list.

General Folklore Study

Dundes, Alan. Folklore Matters.

--------. The Study of Folklore.

---------. The Holy Writ as Oral Lit: the Bible as Folklore.

Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Study of American Folklore: an Introduction.
---------. Folklore: A Study and Research Guide.
Zumwalt: Rosemary Levy. American Folklore Scholarship: A Dialogue of Dissent.
Mieder, Wolfgang. The Wisdom of Many: Essays on the Proverb.
--------. Wise Words.

African-American folklore and literature

Huggins, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse (Afro-Carribean Voodoo)

-------. Mules and Men.

Dundes, Alan. Mother Wit From the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of African American Folklore.

Courtlander. A Treasury of African American Folklore.

Hughes, Langston. The Negro Book of Folklore

Dance, D. Cumber. Shuckin’ and Jivin’.

Ballads

Child, Francis James. English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

Dugaw, Dianne. The Anglo-American Ballad: A Folklore Casebook.

Feminist Folklore (Disney, Ballads, Legends)

Radner, Joan Newlon. Feminist Messages: Coding in Women’s Folk Culture.

Jordan, Rosan, and Susan Kalcik. Women’s Folklore, Women’s Culture.

Hollis, Susan Tower et al. Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore.

Children’s Folklore

Bronner, Simon. American Children’s Folklore.

Opie, Iona and Peter. Children’s Games in Street and Playground.

-------. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.

Folklore and Shakespeare

Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Taming of the Shrew: A Comparative Study of Oral and Literary Versions.

Briggs, K.M. Pale Hecate’s Team: An Examination of the Beliefs on Magic and Witchcraft Among Shakespeare’s Contemporaries…

-------. The Anatomy of Puck: An Examination of Fairy Beliefs Among Shakespeare’s Contemporaries and Successors.

Legends

Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends.

---------. Curses, Broiled Again! The Hottest Urban Legends Going.

---------. The Mexican Pet: More "New Urban Legends."

---------. Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends.

---------. The Truth Never Stands in the Way of A Good Story.

---------. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings.

Curtin, Jeremiah. Irish Fairy Tales

Yeats, William Butler. Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore.

Dreams and Nightmares

Hufford, David. The Terror That Comes in the Night.

Hillard, Molly. "Dream Telling as Memorate: Proving an Assumption."

---------. Dream Interpretation: An Annotated Bibliography.

Folktales

Dundes, Alan. Little Red Riding Hood: A Folklore Casebook.

---------. The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus.

---------. Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook.

Racism and Folklore

Dundes, Alan. Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Portrait of German Culture Through Folklore.

---------. The Blood Libel Legend: a Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore.

---------. The Wandering Jew: Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend.

---------. Cracking Jokes: Studies of Sick Humor and Stereotypes.

Lixfeld. Folklore and Facism.

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