David Elton Gay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Elton Gay |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Elton |
| FAMILY NAME | Gay |
| SIGNATURE | GAY D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alan Dundes
Linda Dégh-Vázsonyi (1920–2014)
The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft
Book Review| July 01 2011 The Malleus Maleficarum and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular BeliefWitchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry, and Reason of State in Early Modern EuropeBeyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment EuropeWitchcraft Continued: Popular Magic in Modern EuropeDoctors, Folk Medicine, and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal during the E…
The Shadow-Walkers
Book Review| January 01 2011 The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous. Edited by Tom Shippey. (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Pp. xl + 429. Bibliography, indices.). David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2011) 124 (491): 109–110. htt…
Reformation and Early Modern Europe
Civic Culture and Everyday Life in Early Modern Germany
Types of the Folktale in the Arab World
Types of the Folktale in the Arab World
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Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy
The Voyage of St. Brendan
Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750
Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature
1. The Invention of a Language: Yiddish among the European Vernaculars 2. The Emergence of Yiddish Literature and the Crisis in Jewish Society 3. The Printing, Distribution, and Audience of Yiddish Books 4. Bilingualism and the Development of Old Yiddish LIterature 5. Yiddish Bibles 6. Medieval Epic and Romance in Yiddish 7. Elia Bahur Levita and the 'romanzo cavalleresco' 8. Books of Morality and Custom 9. Prayer in the Vernacular 10. Yiddish Na…
Religion and the Early Modern State
The Oral Background of Persian Epics
Reviewed by: The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry, and: Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi David Elton Gay The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry. By Kumiko Yamamoto. (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 26. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. xxiv+191. Appendices, bibliography, index.) Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Vol. 3. Trans. Dick Davis. (Washingto…
The Oral Background of Persian Epics
Book Review| April 01 2006 The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and PoetrySunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry, Kumiko Yamamoto.Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Dick Davis. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 243–245. https://d…
Nart Sagas from the Caucasus
Reviewed by: Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs David Elton Gay Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs. Assembled, translated, and annotated by John Colarusso. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi + 552, illustrations, appendices, bibliography.) The Nart stories are a cycle of heroic stories known among th…
Dictionnaire des saints imaginaires et facetieux (review)
Reviewed by: Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux David Elton Gay Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux. Jacques E. Merceron. (Paris: Seuil, 2002. Pp. 1293, preface by Pierre Rézeau, illustrated, bibliography, index of saints, index of places, index of gods and folkloric characters.) In reviewing a book with a title like A Dictionary of Imaginary and Humorous Saints the temptation is to focus on the oddities. And, in fact, …
Nart Sagas from the Caucasus
Book Review| April 01 2005 Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs, John Colarusso. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (468): 238–239. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137705 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux
Book Review| October 01 2005 Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux, Jacques E. Merceron. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (470): 502–503. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137680 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Elton Gay; Diction…
Textualization of Oral Epics, and
At one time most editors and textual critics would have agreed that the purpose of textual criticism and editing was to present the best possible text, if necessary by creating composite texts that were supposed to represent the text as it should have been. Today scholars question the assumptions and results of the older forms of textual criticism, finding, for instance, that these composite texts often seriously misrepresent the texts and textua…
Transmitting Jewish Traditions
Yaakov Elman and Israel Gershoni explain in their introduction to Transmitting Jewish Traditions that these essays are "an attempt to survey [End Page 486] some of the ways—conscious and unconscious—in which the transmission of various cultural elements is affected by the mode of transmission" and "the ways in which oral and written transmission of those cultural elements interact within a context in which written transmission is more or less rea…
Transmitting Jewish Traditions
Book Review| October 01 2003 Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion, Yaakov Elman and Israel Gershoni. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (462): 486–487. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137763 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Textualization of Oral EpicsThe Oral Epic
Book Review| October 01 2003 Textualization of Oral EpicsThe Oral Epic: Performance and Music Textualization of Oral Epics, Lauri Honko.The Oral Epic: Performance and Music, Karl Reichl. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (462): 500–501. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137775 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Tales Arab Women Tell And the Behavioral Patterns They Portray (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
Following Tradition
This is an expansive examination of the history of tradition one of the most common as well as most contested terms in English language usage in Americans' thinking and discourse culture. Tradition in use becomes problematic because of multiple meanings and its conceptual softness. As a term and a concept, it has been important in the development of all scholarly fields that study American culture. Folklore, history, American studies, anthropolog…
Following Tradition
This is an expansive examination of the history of tradition one of the most common as well as most contested terms in English language usage in Americans' thinking and discourse culture. Tradition in use becomes problematic because of multiple meanings and its conceptual softness. As a term and a concept, it has been important in the development of all scholarly fields that study American culture. Folklore, history, American studies, anthropolog…
Inventing the Text
Adam Smith and Property Rights Analysis
Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charm 3 Against a Dwarf
Mind and Form in Folklore
Folk Traditions of the Arab World
The End of the World as We Know It
Book Review| October 01 1999 The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America The End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America, Daniel Wojcik. David E. Gay David E. Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (1999) 112 (446): 563–564. https://doi.org/10.2307/541498 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementar…
Following Tradition
This is an expansive examination of the history of tradition one of the most common as well as most contested terms in English language usage in Americans' thinking and discourse culture. Tradition in use becomes problematic because of multiple meanings and its conceptual softness. As a term and a concept, it has been important in the development of all scholarly fields that study American culture. Folklore, history, American studies, anthropolog…
Inventing the Text
Tales Arab Women Tell And the Behavioral Patterns They Portray (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
Textualization of Oral Epics, and
At one time most editors and textual critics would have agreed that the purpose of textual criticism and editing was to present the best possible text, if necessary by creating composite texts that were supposed to represent the text as it should have been. Today scholars question the assumptions and results of the older forms of textual criticism, finding, for instance, that these composite texts often seriously misrepresent the texts and textua…
Transmitting Jewish Traditions
Yaakov Elman and Israel Gershoni explain in their introduction to Transmitting Jewish Traditions that these essays are "an attempt to survey [End Page 486] some of the ways—conscious and unconscious—in which the transmission of various cultural elements is affected by the mode of transmission" and "the ways in which oral and written transmission of those cultural elements interact within a context in which written transmission is more or less rea…
Transmitting Jewish Traditions
Book Review| October 01 2003 Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion Transmitting Jewish Traditions: Orality, Textuality, and Cultural Diffusion, Yaakov Elman and Israel Gershoni. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (462): 486–487. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137763 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Textualization of Oral EpicsThe Oral Epic
Book Review| October 01 2003 Textualization of Oral EpicsThe Oral Epic: Performance and Music Textualization of Oral Epics, Lauri Honko.The Oral Epic: Performance and Music, Karl Reichl. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2003) 116 (462): 500–501. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137775 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search …
Nart Sagas from the Caucasus
Reviewed by: Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs David Elton Gay Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs. Assembled, translated, and annotated by John Colarusso. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi + 552, illustrations, appendices, bibliography.) The Nart stories are a cycle of heroic stories known among th…
Dictionnaire des saints imaginaires et facetieux (review)
Reviewed by: Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux David Elton Gay Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux. Jacques E. Merceron. (Paris: Seuil, 2002. Pp. 1293, preface by Pierre Rézeau, illustrated, bibliography, index of saints, index of places, index of gods and folkloric characters.) In reviewing a book with a title like A Dictionary of Imaginary and Humorous Saints the temptation is to focus on the oddities. And, in fact, …
Nart Sagas from the Caucasus
Book Review| April 01 2005 Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs Nart Sagas from the Caucasus: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs, John Colarusso. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (468): 238–239. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137705 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share F…
Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux
Book Review| October 01 2005 Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux Dictionnaire des saints imaginaries et facétieux, Jacques E. Merceron. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2005) 118 (470): 502–503. https://doi.org/10.2307/4137680 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Elton Gay; Diction…
Religion and the Early Modern State
The Oral Background of Persian Epics
Reviewed by: The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry, and: Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi David Elton Gay The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry. By Kumiko Yamamoto. (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 26. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. xxiv+191. Appendices, bibliography, index.) Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. Vol. 3. Trans. Dick Davis. (Washingto…
The Oral Background of Persian Epics
Book Review| April 01 2006 The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and PoetrySunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry, Kumiko Yamamoto.Sunset of Empire: Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi, Dick Davis. David Elton Gay David Elton Gay Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2006) 119 (472): 243–245. https://d…
The Voyage of St. Brendan
Early Yiddish Texts 1100-1750
Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature
1. The Invention of a Language: Yiddish among the European Vernaculars 2. The Emergence of Yiddish Literature and the Crisis in Jewish Society 3. The Printing, Distribution, and Audience of Yiddish Books 4. Bilingualism and the Development of Old Yiddish LIterature 5. Yiddish Bibles 6. Medieval Epic and Romance in Yiddish 7. Elia Bahur Levita and the 'romanzo cavalleresco' 8. Books of Morality and Custom 9. Prayer in the Vernacular 10. Yiddish Na…
Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy
Reformation and Early Modern Europe
Civic Culture and Everyday Life in Early Modern Germany
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