Child's Children

Joseph Harris, Barbara Hillers (Eds.)

Child's Children: Ballad Study and its Legacies

ISBN 978-3-86821-424-6, 260 S., kt., € 19,50 (2013)

(BASIS - Ballads and Songs, International Studies, Bd. 7)

SIGRID RIEUWERTS (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH / MAINZ UNIVERSITY)

General Editor’s Preface

JOSEPH HARRIS, BARBARA HILLERS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Acknowledgements

BARBARA HILLERS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Introduction

CHILD AND THE BALLAD IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

MARY ELLEN BROWN (INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON)

From Pastiche to Collection: The Progress of Francis James Child

SIGRID RIEUWERTS (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH / MAINZ UNIVERSITY)

“To make a clean sweep of the whole field”: Harvard, Child, and the Ballads

ANN WIERDA ROWLAND (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS)

The Childish Origins of Literary Studies

STEVE NEWMAN (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY)

“The Dramatic Situation” and “The Imagined Community”: Academic Tales of the Ballad from Philology to the New Criticism and Beyond

SOME CHILD BALLADS AND THEIR CONTEXTS

EMILY LYLE (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)

“Robin Hood in Barnesdale stood”: A New Window on the “Gest” and its Precursors

ANNE DHU MCLUCAS (UNIVERSITY OF OREGON)

“To the Tune of . . . ”: The Robin Hood Legacy in Music

STEPHEN A. MITCHELL (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

“very dark to me . . . very clear to you . . .”: Child, Grundtvig, Laurenson, and “King Orfeo” (Child 19)

THOMAS D. HILL (CORNELL UNIVERSITY)

The “Corpus Christi Carol” and the Yonec / “Canary Prince” Tradition

MAUREEN N. MCLANE (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY)

Child 26 and Poiesis Unbound

THE BALLAD AND INTERNATIONAL SONG TRADITIONS

JOSEPH HARRIS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Eddic Poetry and the Ballad: Voice, Vocality, and Performance, with Special Reference to DgF 1

JAN M. ZIOLKOWSKI (DUMBARTON OAKS / HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Walter of Aquitaine in Spanish Ballad Tradition

MATTHIEU BOYD (FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY / HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

The Female Jailer: Commonplaces in the Gwerzioù

MARGARET HARRISON (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Gender in the Waulking Songs of Màiri nighean Alasdair

AIDA VIDAN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Gender and Genre in Traditional and Virtual Settings: Examples from the South Slavic Oral Heritage

ANNA BONIFAZI (UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG) AND DAVID F. ELMER (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

The Meaning of Melody: Remarks on the Performance-Based Analysis of Bosniac Epic Song