Elissa R Henken
Biographic Data
| ID | 1615403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elissa R Henken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elissa R |
| FAMILY NAME | Henken |
| SIGNATURE | HENKEN E R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Taming the Enemy
While the overriding mythology in the South is that during the Civil War General Sherman completely razed the Confederate states, destroying all in his path, the individual local legends and family narratives in Georgia show a much more complex pattern. In local legendry, towns each have a story of why that town, and that town alone, was not destroyed. In these legends, the ravaging Northern beast is brought under control by the civilizing powers…
Did You Hear about the Girl Who
The Saints of Cornwall . Nicholas Orme
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live. By Bill Ellis. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. $38.00 cloth). Bill Ellis has pulled together over twenty years of articles, conference papers, and thinking into a remarkably seamless, strong, coherent, and stimulating study of legend--examining definitions and approaches used in studying legends, investigating uses that people make of legends to comment on and understand what happen…
Escalating Danger in Contemporary Legends
Legends develop and change in relation to changes in the surrounding culture. That, of course, is part of their essence as folklore. Accordingly, legends get updated to reflect new styles: The spiders in the beehive hairdos of the 1950s and early sixties migrated to the hippies' long hair of the late sixties and early seventies, then inhabited the dreadlocks of the eighties and nineties and eventually the punk mohawk at the turn of the century, i…
National Redeemer
National Redeemer [:] Owain Glyndwr in Welsh Tradition. By Elissa R. Henken. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 203, notes, bibliography. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper) Owain Glyndwr, Welsh nobleman who led a large-scale revolt against English rule during early years of fifteenth century, is probably best known outside of Wales as Shakespeare's Owen Glendower. As might be expected, roles played by Glyndwr in Welsh tradition d…
The Saint as Secular Ruler
WELSH saints were, in the main, real men and women living in the fifth and sixth centuries, whose lives took on traditional patterns and who served not simply as the protagonists of religious narrative, but rather as Christianized folk heroes.' The traditions which grew up around them have been recorded in a wide variety of forms, ranging from twelfth-century prose vitae, through the medieval verse of the Gogynfeirdd (the poets of the independent…
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live. By Bill Ellis. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. $38.00 cloth). Bill Ellis has pulled together over twenty years of articles, conference papers, and thinking into a remarkably seamless, strong, coherent, and stimulating study of legend--examining definitions and approaches used in studying legends, investigating uses that people make of legends to comment on and understand what happen…
Taming the Enemy
While the overriding mythology in the South is that during the Civil War General Sherman completely razed the Confederate states, destroying all in his path, the individual local legends and family narratives in Georgia show a much more complex pattern. In local legendry, towns each have a story of why that town, and that town alone, was not destroyed. In these legends, the ravaging Northern beast is brought under control by the civilizing powers…
Escalating Danger in Contemporary Legends
Legends develop and change in relation to changes in the surrounding culture. That, of course, is part of their essence as folklore. Accordingly, legends get updated to reflect new styles: The spiders in the beehive hairdos of the 1950s and early sixties migrated to the hippies' long hair of the late sixties and early seventies, then inhabited the dreadlocks of the eighties and nineties and eventually the punk mohawk at the turn of the century, i…
The Saint as Secular Ruler
WELSH saints were, in the main, real men and women living in the fifth and sixth centuries, whose lives took on traditional patterns and who served not simply as the protagonists of religious narrative, but rather as Christianized folk heroes.' The traditions which grew up around them have been recorded in a wide variety of forms, ranging from twelfth-century prose vitae, through the medieval verse of the Gogynfeirdd (the poets of the independent…
National Redeemer
National Redeemer [:] Owain Glyndwr in Welsh Tradition. By Elissa R. Henken. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 203, notes, bibliography. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper) Owain Glyndwr, Welsh nobleman who led a large-scale revolt against English rule during early years of fifteenth century, is probably best known outside of Wales as Shakespeare's Owen Glendower. As might be expected, roles played by Glyndwr in Welsh tradition d…
Did You Hear about the Girl Who
The Saints of Cornwall . Nicholas Orme
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults
Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live. By Bill Ellis. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. Pp. $38.00 cloth). Bill Ellis has pulled together over twenty years of articles, conference papers, and thinking into a remarkably seamless, strong, coherent, and stimulating study of legend--examining definitions and approaches used in studying legends, investigating uses that people make of legends to comment on and understand what happen…
Escalating Danger in Contemporary Legends
Legends develop and change in relation to changes in the surrounding culture. That, of course, is part of their essence as folklore. Accordingly, legends get updated to reflect new styles: The spiders in the beehive hairdos of the 1950s and early sixties migrated to the hippies' long hair of the late sixties and early seventies, then inhabited the dreadlocks of the eighties and nineties and eventually the punk mohawk at the turn of the century, i…
Taming the Enemy
While the overriding mythology in the South is that during the Civil War General Sherman completely razed the Confederate states, destroying all in his path, the individual local legends and family narratives in Georgia show a much more complex pattern. In local legendry, towns each have a story of why that town, and that town alone, was not destroyed. In these legends, the ravaging Northern beast is brought under control by the civilizing powers…
History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Art (4 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (3 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works)