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Counting-Out Rhymes
A Dictionary
Edited by Roger D. Abrahams and Lois Rankin
University of Texas Press
A definitive compendium of children’s counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980.
The British Traditional Ballad in North America
University of Texas Press
Centering on the theme of story variation, this book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide.
Folklore Genres
Edited by Dan Ben-Amos
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.
Amorous Games
A Critical Edition of Les adevineaux amoureux
Edited by James Woodrow Hassell
University of Texas Press
A collection of medieval French texts whose principal unifying force is the compiler's aim to provide a manual of conversation and entertainment for polite society.
Folklore Methodology
Formulated by Julius Krohn and Expanded by Nordic Researchers
By Kaarle Krohn; Translated by Roger L. Welsch
University of Texas Press
Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials and became the handbook for the great Finnish School of folklore research.
Jump-rope Rhymes
A Dictionary
Edited by Roger D. Abrahams; Introduction by Brian Sutton-Smith
University of Texas Press
A collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes.
Morphology of the Folktale
Second Edition
University of Texas Press
The classic work on forms of the folktale.
The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Edited by Bruce Jackson
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.
Folk-Songs of the Southern United States
By Josiah H. Combs; Edited by D.K. Wilgus
University of Texas Press
An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.
Indian Tales of North America
An Anthology for the Adult Reader
Edited by Tristram Potter Coffin
University of Texas Press
Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.