Folklore and Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8934409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H R Ellis Davidson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 73-93 |
| Publication date | 1975-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1975.9716005 |
| OpenAlex | W2320035126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
IT is my intention today to look back, as I did last year, to recent work published in our journal and elsewhere, to discover the main lines along which progress in folklore studies is being made. The subject of folklore in literature has come well into the forefront in recent issues, and for the first time, to the best of my knowledge, the word folklore has appeared in the English faculty lecture list at Cambridge, where Dr Derek Brewer has been lecturing on 'The Interpretation of Dreams, Folklore and Romance', while the importance of the folk tradition in the work of Chaucer has been recognized in his recent Israel Gollancz lecture 'Towards a Chaucerian Poetic'.' It is necessary to make a distinction here between different methods of approach, for it has long been customary to search for information about folklore in literature: Beowulf's
Archaeology · Art · Folklore · Literature · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Themes in Literature Analysis
Shakespeare and the Fairies
Folklore and Man's Past
The Pre-Disposition to Folkery
The Function of Folklore in ‘Jane Eyre’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’
Some Remarks on Greek Folktales
Wordsworth's Use of Oral History
The Role of Folk-Songs in the Russian Folk-Plays
Folklore in Nineteenth-Century English Literature
Folk Play and Ritual in Hamlet
The Element of Witchcraft in The Scarlet Letter
Folktale Morphology and the Structure of Beowulf
Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898
The Tale of Cupid and Psyche
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2012 (37) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |