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Author Atkinson, David, 1955 February 23- author.

Title The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts / David Atkinson
Published Cambridge, UK : Open Books Publishers, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 207 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface -- 1. Where is the ballad? -- 2. On the nature of evidence -- 3. Textual authority and the sources of variance -- 4. The material ballad -- 5. Sound and writing -- 6. Agency, intention, and the problem of version (with a brief history of ballad editing) -- 7. Palimpsest or texte génétique -- 8. Afterword: 'All her friends cried out for shame'
Summary "This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship."--Publisher's website
Analysis ballads
oral transmission
textual scholarship
ballad studies
folk songs
critique gňťique
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index
Notes English
Viewed on 2020-04-03
Winner of the 2014 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award
Subject Ballads, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Ballads, Scots -- History and criticism
Ballads, English -- England -- History and criticism
Literary studies: general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Ballads, English
Ballads, Scots
England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019467793
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