LITERATURE 352: FOLK LITERATURE--BALLADS &TALES
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LITERATURE 352: FOLK LITERATURE--BALLADS &TALES
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The following links have useful information:
| Ballads | Conspiracies |
| Fairies | Folktales |
| Ghosts | Humor |
| Scottish Folklore | |
| UFOs | Unexplained and Mysterious |
| Urban Legends | Vampires |
| Werewolves | |
| King Arthur | Mythology |
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LITERATURE 352: ASSIGNED READINGS
BALLADS: COURSEPACK I (Test 1)
1. Friedman, A. + VIKING Book of Folk Ballads. New York: Viking Books, c. 1956.
In Coursepack I
2. Brunvand, Jan. + Study of AMERICAN Folklore. New York: Norton, 1968.
In Coursepack I
TALES: COURSEPACK II (Test 2)
1. Clarkson, A. + WORLD Folktales: A Scribner Research Collection.
In Coursepack II
LEGENDS: COURSEPACK III (Test 3)
1. Clarkson, A. + WORLD Folktales: A Scribner Research Collection. New York:
In Coursepack III
Coursepacks available ONLY at Ned's.
LIT 352: FOLKLORE COURSEPACK I (Cross)
BALLADS
Friedman Albert, The Viking Book of Folk Ballads. New York:
Viking Press, 1956. ix-xxv, 3-47. 68-71, 84-95, 110-15, 131-35,
156-63,178-201, 218-31, 279-301, 307-13. ã
LIT 352: FOLKLORE COURSEPACK II (Cross)
FOLKTALES
Clarkson, Atelia and Cross, G. B. World Folktales.
LIT 352: FOLKLORE COURSEPACK III (Cross)
LEGENDS
(Wiccans and Witches)
a. "A Roach in the Ear Canal" www.abcnews.com ã
b. Wiccans, Witches, and Witchcraft
c. Witches of Salem
d. Witches: Myth Vs. Reality ã
e. Ergot Poisoning and the witches
f. Broomsticks and Night-ride (from World Folktales) ã
g. Werewolves
h. Werewolf Gene Search . . ." Los Angeles Times ã
(Fairies)
i. Fairies
j. Fairies, Pixies, . . . .(from World Folktales) ã
k.. Robin Goodfellow
l. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
m. Prototype Alien Visitation and Abduction
n. UFO Abduction Reports (abbreviated) ã
o. A Surgeon’s View ( www.csicop.org/si/9601/autopsy.html ) ã
(Supplemental Material)
a.. Kenner, Corrine. "The Elves of Lilly Hill." Fate: True Reports of the Strange and
Unknown," February 1997, 31-33. ã
b. What’s Really Going On?" Carl Sagan, Parade Magazine, March 7, 1993,
pp. 4-7. ã
ã --Copyright material, permission granted
Titles of Ballads on Test 1 Viking Book of Folk Ballads
Page Page
3 Riddles Wisely Expounded (1) 183 Mary Hamilton (173)
7 Elfin Knight (2) 186 Little Musgrave (81)
13 James Harris (243)
18 Willie's Lady (6) 196 Childe Maurice (83)
23 Three Ravens (26) 199 Lamkin (93)
26 Molly Bawn (--)
27 Great Silkie (113)
34 Wife of Usher's Well (79) 218 Mary Hamilton's Last (--)
41 Tam Lin (39) 225 Wexford Girl (--)
84 Lord Thomas (73) 228 Tom Dooley (--)
88 Barbara Allen (84) 297 Sir Patrick Spens (58)
110 Butcher Boy (--) 307 Avondale Mine Disaster (--)
130 Maid Freed from Gallows (95) 309 Casey Jones (--)
156 Edward (13) 383 John Henry (--)
178 Lord Randal (12) 424 Cowboy's Lament (--)
BE SURE TO READ ALL INTRODUCTIONS TO SECTIONS AND NOTES ON THE BALLADS.
YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THIS MATERIAL AS WELL AS THE BALLADS THEMSELVES.
BALLADS (Weeks 2-5)
Week Date
WK 2 Reading (Viking Intro) CSP I--pp. ix-xxv
WK 3 Reading (Viking) CSP I--pp. 3-47
WK 3 Reading (Study) CSP I--pp. 317-37
WK 4 Reading (Viking) CSP I--pp. 84-158
WK 5 Reading (Viking) CSP I--pp. 178-426
WK 5 TEST 1 (Ballads)
FOLKTALES (Weeks 6-8)
WK 6 Reading (Study) CSP II--pp. 1-18, 103-28
WK 6 Reading (World FT) CSP II--pp. 5-13
WK 7 Reading (World FT) CSP II--Sections A, B, D, F, G, H
WK 8 Reading (World FT) CSP II--Sections I, J
WK 8 TEST 2 (Tales)
LEGENDS (weeks 9-14)
WK 9 Readings (World FT) CSP III--Section E
WK 10 Films: Witches of Salem and Burning Time
WK 11 Fairies
WK 12 Reading (World FT) CSP III--Section C
WK 13 Film: Midsummer Night's Dream WK 14 Film: Alien Autopsy
WK 15 TEST 3 (Legends)
LIT 352 WISDOM OF THE PEOPLE: BALLADS, LEGENDS, AND TALES
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Reading and analysis of printed tales, legends, and ballads using the tools of folklore scholarship.
PREREQUISITES: 6 Hrs of credit in literature. Applies to the children's literature minors and can be taken as a free elective.
GOALS: The primary goal is to study folk literature--the accumulated wisdom of the people. A knowledge of such source material is important in itself; it is significant source material for much great literature, and it contributes to our understanding of narrative technique. Other goals are to teach students to
1) analyze legends, tales, and ballads
2) use folklore indexes and scholarly research tools,
3) study the urban belief legend,
4) apply the historic- geographic method to folktale types,
REQUIREMENTS:
Three screening exams--test 1, test 2 (Mid) and test 3 (Final)
They are all quizzes (multiple choice 65-75 questions each).
Test 1 includes 25 match-ups (ballad subjects with titles)
GRADES:
The three tests constitute a total of 300 points--the number of questions per test is about 66. Your average determines your grade. The scores are continually added and a new curve set after each test. The average is measured against a grade scale (see below).
B+ = 85-88 C+ = 73-76 D+ = 61-64
A = 93-100 B = 81-84 C = 69-72 D = 57-60
A- = 89-92 B- = 77-80 C- = 65-68 D- = 50-56
I. ANGLO-AMERICAN BALLADS
A. Origins and transmissions: communalists, individualists
B. Child Ballads:
style: language, repetition, hyperbole, meter, music
types: supernatural, religious, romantic, outlaw, etc.
C. Other ballad varieties: minstrel, broadside
D. Native American ballads: disaster, cowboy, crime, frontier,
II. INDO-EUROPEAN TALES
A. Origins and transmission: Monogenesis, Polygenesis, Jungian,
B. Research tools
1) Aarne-Thompson--Tale Type Index
2) Thompson-- Motif Index
3) Baughman--Type and Motif indexes
4) Christiansen--Migratory Legend Index
5) Briggs--Dictionary of Folk Narratives
C. The Geographic-Historic Method
III. LEGENDS
A. Origins and transmission
B. Varieties of legends
1) Supernatural: werewolf, revenants, vampire
2) Migratory
3) Religious
4) Urban belief
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