Jack in two worlds : contemporary North American tales and their tellers
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- ISBN: 0807821357
- ISBN: 9780807821350
- ISBN: 0807844438
- ISBN: 9780807844434
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xlvi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1994.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-280) and indexes. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface / William Bernard McCarthy -- Introduction : Jacks : the name, the tales, the American traditions / Carl Lindahl -- Note on the texts : transcribing Jack tales in performance / Bill Ellis and William Bernard McCarthy -- pt. 1: The Hicks-Harmon (Beech Mountain) Jack tale tradition. Jack in the raw : Ray Hicks / Joseph Daniel Sobol -- Hardy Hard-Ass / Ray Hicks -- Jack, my father, and Uncle Ray : Frank Proffitt, Jr. / Carl Lindahl -- Jack and the old rich man / Frank Proffitt, Jr. -- The storyteller as curator : Marshall Ward / Cheryl Oxford -- Jack in the lions' den / Marshall Ward -- The Gentry-Long tradition and roots of revivalism : Maud Gentry Long / Bill Ellis -- Jack and the heifer hide / Maud Gentry Long -- The teller and the tale : storytelling on Beech Mountain / W.F.H. Nicolaisen -- pt. 2: Jack in the storytelling revival. The tellers and the tales : revivalist storytelling / Ruth Stotter and William Bernard McCarthy -- What Jack learned at school : Leonard Roberts / William Bernard McCarthy -- Raglif Jaglif Tetartlif Pole / Leonard Roberts -- Between worlds : Donald Davis / Joseph Daniel Sobol -- Jack's biggest tale / Donald Davis -- A Jack tale tradition in Pennsylvania's Northern Tier : Bonelyn Lugg Kyofski / Kenneth A. Thigpen -- Grandma Hess's story about Jack, Bill, and Tom / Bonelyn Lugg Kyofski -- Jack's adventures in Toronto : Stewart Cameron / Kay Stone, with Stewart Cameron -- Jack and the three feathers / Stewart Cameron. |
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