K M Briggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3790036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K M Briggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | K M |
| FAMILY NAME | Briggs |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGGS K M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Possible Mythological Motifs in English Folktales
(1972). Possible Mythological Motifs in English Folktales. Folklore: Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 265-271
Folklore in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
THE Romantic Revival set the key of literature at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Poetry moved from London back into the country, the rustic country which had formerly been the proper subject of pastorals and the wild, remote, inaccessible country which had only lately ceased to be 'horrid' and become 'romantic'. It is of course unnecessary to say that every literary fashion has its precursors and successors and that nothing is rigidly c…
Folklore Notes
Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells
AMONG the long didactic works of the seventeenth-century Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells gives us as good an idea as any of the background of traditional beliefs on which the literature of the period drew, and which, trickling down through chapbooks, conditioned the thinking of unlearned as well as learned men. Every age has its fashions in learning as in everything else, and Burton, Browne, Drayton and Camden all tend to draw on the …
The Transmission of Folk-Tales in Britain
PETER OPIE once suggested that folklore material might be classified not so much regionally as by its method of transmission. He suggested that the material might profitably be arranged as Nursery Lore mother or nurse to infant; School-Child Lore girl to girl and boy to boy; Lad's Lore father or master to youth; Maid's Lore mother to daughter; Lover's Lore, and so on. This idea, like many which he throws out, was a fruitful and suggestive one. It…
Obituaries Professor Macedward Leach
Obituary Georg Hüllen
Historical Traditions in English Folk-Tales
memories of the Machinery Riots in the Fen Country or in Yorkshire. These are often of special interest to the students of social history, because they give life and detail to events that would otherwise only be found in legal documents. Behind all these lie the traditions that may once have celebrated historical characters but which have passed into pure legend, like the tales of King Arthur and of Robin Hood. The third type of tales are those t…
A Tentative Essay
WHAT constitutes Folklore as a study? What are the objects towards which it is directed? What human activities are legitimately to be included in its scope ? How is it to be differentiated from Ethnology, Anthropology? Folk-Life Study? What place has literature and the written word in it? Does the term 'Folk' imply or insist on a class distinction? All these questions have been very much debated lately, in America and on the Continent as well as …
Making a Dictionary of Folk-Tales
Some Late Accounts of the Fairies
FOR the past five hundred years the English Fairies have been described as vanished or vanishing creatures, familiar to each generation's grandparents but almost unknown to the modern man. Chaucer said so, Reginald Scot said so, and Corbet; Aubrey's tale of the Inkberrow Ting-tang is an early version of the Fairy Flitting told by Hugh Miller in the nineteenth century and repeated by Kipling in The Dymchurch Flit, a story probably founded on oral …
The Fairy Economy As it may be deduced from a Group of Folk Tales
The English Fairies
ALL fairy beliefs are extraordinarily complex, both in the variety of types of fairy, and, so far as one can learn, in the origin of the beliefs. This is particularly true of English fairylore, probably because we are racially so mixed. No single explanation seems to fit the whole subject. It is as if we were reading a detective story in which the crime turns out to have been committed not by one main criminal but by a number of fortuitous minor …
The Personnel of Fairyland
The Fairy Economy As it may be deduced from a Group of Folk Tales
The English Fairies
ALL fairy beliefs are extraordinarily complex, both in the variety of types of fairy, and, so far as one can learn, in the origin of the beliefs. This is particularly true of English fairylore, probably because we are racially so mixed. No single explanation seems to fit the whole subject. It is as if we were reading a detective story in which the crime turns out to have been committed not by one main criminal but by a number of fortuitous minor …
Folklore in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
THE Romantic Revival set the key of literature at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Poetry moved from London back into the country, the rustic country which had formerly been the proper subject of pastorals and the wild, remote, inaccessible country which had only lately ceased to be 'horrid' and become 'romantic'. It is of course unnecessary to say that every literary fashion has its precursors and successors and that nothing is rigidly c…
The Personnel of Fairyland
Possible Mythological Motifs in English Folktales
(1972). Possible Mythological Motifs in English Folktales. Folklore: Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 265-271
The Transmission of Folk-Tales in Britain
PETER OPIE once suggested that folklore material might be classified not so much regionally as by its method of transmission. He suggested that the material might profitably be arranged as Nursery Lore mother or nurse to infant; School-Child Lore girl to girl and boy to boy; Lad's Lore father or master to youth; Maid's Lore mother to daughter; Lover's Lore, and so on. This idea, like many which he throws out, was a fruitful and suggestive one. It…
Historical Traditions in English Folk-Tales
memories of the Machinery Riots in the Fen Country or in Yorkshire. These are often of special interest to the students of social history, because they give life and detail to events that would otherwise only be found in legal documents. Behind all these lie the traditions that may once have celebrated historical characters but which have passed into pure legend, like the tales of King Arthur and of Robin Hood. The third type of tales are those t…
Some Late Accounts of the Fairies
FOR the past five hundred years the English Fairies have been described as vanished or vanishing creatures, familiar to each generation's grandparents but almost unknown to the modern man. Chaucer said so, Reginald Scot said so, and Corbet; Aubrey's tale of the Inkberrow Ting-tang is an early version of the Fairy Flitting told by Hugh Miller in the nineteenth century and repeated by Kipling in The Dymchurch Flit, a story probably founded on oral …
The Personnel of Fairyland
The English Fairies
ALL fairy beliefs are extraordinarily complex, both in the variety of types of fairy, and, so far as one can learn, in the origin of the beliefs. This is particularly true of English fairylore, probably because we are racially so mixed. No single explanation seems to fit the whole subject. It is as if we were reading a detective story in which the crime turns out to have been committed not by one main criminal but by a number of fortuitous minor …
The Fairy Economy As it may be deduced from a Group of Folk Tales
Making a Dictionary of Folk-Tales
Some Late Accounts of the Fairies
FOR the past five hundred years the English Fairies have been described as vanished or vanishing creatures, familiar to each generation's grandparents but almost unknown to the modern man. Chaucer said so, Reginald Scot said so, and Corbet; Aubrey's tale of the Inkberrow Ting-tang is an early version of the Fairy Flitting told by Hugh Miller in the nineteenth century and repeated by Kipling in The Dymchurch Flit, a story probably founded on oral …
A Tentative Essay
WHAT constitutes Folklore as a study? What are the objects towards which it is directed? What human activities are legitimately to be included in its scope ? How is it to be differentiated from Ethnology, Anthropology? Folk-Life Study? What place has literature and the written word in it? Does the term 'Folk' imply or insist on a class distinction? All these questions have been very much debated lately, in America and on the Continent as well as …
Historical Traditions in English Folk-Tales
memories of the Machinery Riots in the Fen Country or in Yorkshire. These are often of special interest to the students of social history, because they give life and detail to events that would otherwise only be found in legal documents. Behind all these lie the traditions that may once have celebrated historical characters but which have passed into pure legend, like the tales of King Arthur and of Robin Hood. The third type of tales are those t…
Obituary Georg Hüllen
Obituaries Professor Macedward Leach
The Transmission of Folk-Tales in Britain
PETER OPIE once suggested that folklore material might be classified not so much regionally as by its method of transmission. He suggested that the material might profitably be arranged as Nursery Lore mother or nurse to infant; School-Child Lore girl to girl and boy to boy; Lad's Lore father or master to youth; Maid's Lore mother to daughter; Lover's Lore, and so on. This idea, like many which he throws out, was a fruitful and suggestive one. It…
Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells
AMONG the long didactic works of the seventeenth-century Heywood's Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells gives us as good an idea as any of the background of traditional beliefs on which the literature of the period drew, and which, trickling down through chapbooks, conditioned the thinking of unlearned as well as learned men. Every age has its fashions in learning as in everything else, and Burton, Browne, Drayton and Camden all tend to draw on the …
Folklore Notes
Possible Mythological Motifs in English Folktales
(1972). Possible Mythological Motifs in English Folktales. Folklore: Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 265-271
Folklore in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
THE Romantic Revival set the key of literature at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Poetry moved from London back into the country, the rustic country which had formerly been the proper subject of pastorals and the wild, remote, inaccessible country which had only lately ceased to be 'horrid' and become 'romantic'. It is of course unnecessary to say that every literary fashion has its precursors and successors and that nothing is rigidly c…
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