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Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat : Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition /

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Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat showcases the stories of two Newfoundland storytellers, Philip Pius Power and Alice Lannon. Ethnopoetic transcriptions of these sensitive and artful tales, which have been passed on orally for generations as part of a community tradition, give accounts of livi...

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Main Authors: Best, Anita (Author), Greenhill, Pauline (Author), Lovelace, Martin (Author)
Other Authors: Blair, Graham (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Fairy tales > Newfoundland and Labrador > Specimens.
Fairy tales-Newfoundland and Labrador-Specimens.
Folklore > Newfoundland and Labrador > History.
Folklore-Newfoundland and Labrador-History.
Oral tradition > Newfoundland and Labrador.
Oral tradition-Newfoundland and Labrador.
Spoken word poetry.
Tales > Newfoundland and Labrador > Specimens.
Tales-Newfoundland and Labrador-Specimens.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
narrative, contemporary oral tradition, continuous kin, wonder tale, male centered tales, female centered tales, linguistic anthropology, paralinguistics.
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Call Number: GR113.5.N54 C55 2019
 
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