Jack in two worlds : contemporary North American tales and their tellers

McCarthy, William Bernard, 1939- (Added Author). Oxford, Cheryl. (Added Author). Sobol, Joseph Daniel. (Added Author).

Summary: This book brings together eight Jack Tales collected from performances since World War II. All the performers have their feet planted firmly in traditional soil, yet all have been affected to some degree by popular notions and scholarly attitudes toward the Jack Tales, which was published fifty years ago.

Item details

ISBN: 0807821357
ISBN: 9780807821350
ISBN: 0807844438
ISBN: 9780807844434
Physical Description: print
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.