English Riddles from Oral Tradition

Humor & Entertainment

Taylor, Archer

Humor

Octagon Books

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Naudé, Gabriel

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A Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880

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Whiting, Bartlett Jere

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Belknap Press

A Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820–1880

Harvard University Press

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Book Catalogues: Their Varieties and Uses (St. Paul's Bibliographies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

St Pauls Bibliographies

Second edition, revised by William P. Barlow, Jr. A reprint of the first edition with corrections noted with a thorough revision of the check list of private library catalogues. Ink ownership inscription in corner of front free endpaper. xxxviii, 284 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Book Catalogues: Their Varieties & Uses

Frederic C. Beil

This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.

Edward and Sven I. Rosengard: A Study in the Dissemination of the Ballad

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Literary

Literary Licensing, LLC

“ ‘Edward’ and ‘Sven I Rosengård’ is a comparative study of the English and Scandinavian ballad texts. The texts of numerous ballad versions are reproduced in the last half of the book.
"The aim of this comparison and analysis is not to determine as many ‘original’ traits as possible, but to establish the ballad’s history and, above all, the manner of its dissemination. It is indeed a desperate undertaking to reconstruct a ballad text, and one hesitates to venture upon such a difficult task. But a systematic comparison and analysis of the variations tells us many things which can be discovered in no other way and leads us to a clearer understanding of the historical development. . . .
"The most superficial examination of the versions of the ballad reveals the existence of two groups, the Scandinavian and the English. The differences which mark these groups are not merely linguistic, but concern also the ballad’s structure and spirit.”
Archer Taylor

"Edward" and "Sven I Rosengård": A Study in the Dissemination of a Ballad

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Music

Fathom Pub. Co.

"This collection of riddles serves two purposes. It is, in the first place, a corpus of English traditional riddling ... . The widely scattered small collections of English popular riddles are here assembled and arranged systematically. An extensive view of the parallels and of related riddles provides a foundation for comparative studies." Archer Taylor

English Riddles in Oral Tradition

 "The proverb and related forms have long been objects of general interest and the occasion of many books, but they have attracted little serious and thorough study  . . . . The definition of a proverb is too difficult to repay the undertaking; and should we fortunately combine in a single definition all the essential elements and give each the proper emphasis, we should not even then have a touchstone. An incommunicable quality tells us this sentence is proverbial and that one is not. Hence no definition will enable us to identify positively a sentence as proverbial."  Archer TaylorArcher Taylor's "The Proverb" (1931) and "An Index to 'The Proverb'"(1934) present the classic and comprehensive study on paremiology. The Proverb deals with definition problems, metaphorical proverbs, proverbial types, variants, proverbs in folk narratives and literature, loan translations and the classical or Biblical origin of many proverbs. Taylor analyzes customs and superstitions reflected in proverbs; he studies legal, medical and weather proverbs; and he also investigates their content and style. Proverbial prophecies, blasons populaires, proverbial expressions, wellerisms and proverbial comparisons are dealt with as well. The large index contains many comparative and bibliographical notes on major European proverbs.

The Proverb and An Index to "The Proverb"

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