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Pages: 466
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Folk Nation
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Simon J. Bronner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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This lively reader traces the search for American tradition and national identity through folklore and folklife from the 19th century to the present. Through an
Mother Wit from Laughing Barrel
Language: en
Pages: 704
Authors: Alan Dundes
Categories: Literary Criticism
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A Tennessee Folklore Sampler
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Pages: 458
Authors: Ted Olson
Categories: Social Science
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Since 1934 the Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin has been a respected source on the wonderfully diverse history and traditions of the Volunteer State, but unt
The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Carolyn Schmidt Brown
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

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To Carolyn Brown s mind, the tall tale is not necessarily an account of the adventures of a larger-than-life hero, nor is it just a humorous first-person narrat