Boundaries and Thresholds: Papers from a Colloquium of the Katharine Briggs Club
Author(s):
Davidson, Hilda Ellis (editor)
| Binding: | Softcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher Name: | The Thimble Press |
| Publication Year: | 1993 |
| Publication Place: | Stroud, UK |
| ISBN: | 9780903355414 |
| SKU: | 038638 |
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| Categories: | Myths, Legends, Folklore and Fairy Tales |
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Myths, Legends, Folklore and Fairy Tales
104pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light wear to covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Katharine Briggs (1898 – 1980) was a folklorist, sometime President of the Folklore Society and and author of The Anatomy of Puck, a four-volume dictionary of British folk stories and other works on fairies and folklore. This volume contains and selection of papers presented at a symposium in her honour in the early 1990s and includes essays such as Reimund Kvideland on Establishing Borders: The Narrative Potential of a Motif; Alan W. Smith on Crossing the Other Line: Some Arctic Analogues of the Traditional Equator Ceremony; Patricia Lysaght on Bealtaine: Irish Mavtime Customs and the Reaffirmation of Boundaries and many more.
Keywords:
Folklore
Literary Criticism
