The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts

The Anglo-Scottish ballad and its imaginary contexts /

"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 str...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atkinson, David, 1955 February 23- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Open Books Publishers, 2014.
Subjects:
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
ballads.
oral transmission.
textual scholarship.
ballad studies.
folk songs.
critique gňťique.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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'.

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