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South from Hell-fer-Sartin

Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales

Autor: Leonard Roberts

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: The University Press of Kentucky

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South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies o...

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Autor

Leonard Roberts

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

strony

296

EAN

9780813101750

ISBN

9780813101750

Enbook ID

06378472

Wydawca

The University Press of Kentucky

Waga

471

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 17

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South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky. There, on the north slope of the Pine Mountain range in Leslie and Perry counties-probably the last stronghold of white, English-language folk tales in North America-Leonard W. Roberts recorded this rich collection more than three decades ago. To a people who, at that time, watched dancing hearth fires more often than television, the adventures of Jack in the land of witches and giants, monsters and beautiful princesses, provided first-class entertainment. Here are such old favorites as "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Golden Arm," retold in the idiom of the Kentucky mountains. Here are hauntingly beautiful cantes fables and earthy Irishman jokes. Here are encounters with Indians and marvelous hunting escapades. Roberts introduces his collection, first published in 1955, with a sympathetic description of the mountain way of life. He notes especially the bewildering and rapid changes that came to the Pine Mountain watershed in that decade as the highways and electric lines at last brought in a sophistication that preferred the soap opera to the folk tale. Although the stories Roberts recorded were still a firm part of folk tradition at the time, he believed that within a decade or two they would be forgotten-a prediction, sadly, by now no doubt fulfilled. Any lover of the vanishing art of tale telling will relish this rich treasury of folklore and humor. Full notes on sources, types, motifs, parallels, and possible origins of the tales make this collection valuable also for folklorists.

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