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Narratives in Society represents three decades of scholarship by distinguished folklorist Linda Dégh. The twenty essays--some new, the rest newly revised--present Dégh's ideas, theories, and approaches to folktales: the people who tell them, listen to them, pass them on, and the communities that support them.

Narratives in Society represents three decades of scholarship bydistinguished folklorist Linda D?gh. The twenty essays -- some new, the rest newlyrevised -- present D?gh's ideas, theories, and approaches to folktales: the peoplewho tell them, listen to them, pass them on, and the communities that supportthem.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-401).

LINDA DÉGH, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and the recipient of numerous scholarly awards. She is currently vice-president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, a Fellow of the American Folklore Society, Associate Editor of the Journal of American Folklore and International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. Her many publications include Folktales and Society and American Folklore and the Mass Media.

Introduction: What Can Gyula Ortutay and the Budapest School

Offer to Contemporary Students of Narrative?

PART ONE: CREATIVITY OF STORYTELLERS

1. The Creative Practices of Storytellers

2. Biology of Storytelling

3. The Nature of Women's Storytelling

4. Manipulation of Personal Experience

5. The Legend Teller

PART TWO: WORLDVIEW: BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY

6. The World of European Marchen-Tellers

7. The Magic Tale and Its Magic

8. The Approach to Worldview in Folk Narrative Study

9. How Do Storytellers Interpret the Snakeprince Tale?

10. The Crack on the Red Goblet, or Truth in Modern Legend

(with Andrew Vazsonyi)

PART THREE: CONDUITS OF TRANSMISSION

11. The Hypothesis of Multi-Conduit Transmissions in Folklore

(with Andrew Vazsonyi)

12. Is There a Difference between the Folklore Of Urban and Rural Americans?

13. Processes of Legend Formation

14. Does the Word 'Dog" Bite? Ostensive Action: A Means of Legend-Telling

(with Andrew Vazsonyi)

15. What Did the Grimm Brothers Give to and Take from the Folk?

PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES FROM THE MODERN INDUSTRIAL WORLD

16. Symbiosis of Joke and Legend: A Case of Conversational Folklore

17. Two Old World Narrators on the Telephone

18. The Jokes of an Irishman in a Multiethnic Urban Environmeny

19. The Legend Conduit

20. Satanic Child Abuse in a Blue House

Notes

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