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- catalog abstract "Toelken's lively exploration of folksongs and their meanings looks closely at a number of folksong and ballad texts. He discusses riddle songs and other ambiguous folksongs, as well as the various "ballad commonplaces," treating them not as a fund of mindless cliches but as a reservoir of suggestive reference. The author ranges through metaphors such as weaving, plowing, plucking flowers, and walking in the dew, showing in each case how it contributes to meaning in vernacular song. Included are comparisons to German folksongs, medieval poetry, Italian folk lyrics, and a wide range of Euro-American vernacular expression. If morning dew and roses are metaphorical signifiers, he prompts us to ask, what might they say to the folk communities that sustain and share them? Toelken draws on both his published work and his extensive unpublished research on English-language and German-Austrian folksong. The German references he offers show that the nuances are not coincidental or unique to English ballad development but reflect a widespread northern European pattern of metaphoric expression.".
- catalog contributor b7472900.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "All concealed in the flap of his pants, metaphors and vernacular clarity -- One morning in May, our engagement with vernacular imagery -- It's dabbling in the dew where you might find me, some contexts of folksong metaphor -- üba d'Alm, regional context and cultural nuance -- I sowed some seeds all in some grove, multiple metaphors and meaning -- Riddles wisely expounded, poetic ambiguity in the riddle songs -- My golden cup is down the strand, wellsprings and channels of folksong nuance -- Epilogue: the golden skein and the bury new loom, the weaving of folksong metaphor.".
- catalog description "If morning dew and roses are metaphorical signifiers, he prompts us to ask, what might they say to the folk communities that sustain and share them? Toelken draws on both his published work and his extensive unpublished research on English-language and German-Austrian folksong. The German references he offers show that the nuances are not coincidental or unique to English ballad development but reflect a widespread northern European pattern of metaphoric expression.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-183) and index.".
- catalog description "Toelken's lively exploration of folksongs and their meanings looks closely at a number of folksong and ballad texts. He discusses riddle songs and other ambiguous folksongs, as well as the various "ballad commonplaces," treating them not as a fund of mindless cliches but as a reservoir of suggestive reference. The author ranges through metaphors such as weaving, plowing, plucking flowers, and walking in the dew, showing in each case how it contributes to meaning in vernacular song. Included are comparisons to German folksongs, medieval poetry, Italian folk lyrics, and a wide range of Euro-American vernacular expression.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 189 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0252021347 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Folklore and society".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Pres,".
- catalog subject "398.2 20".
- catalog subject "Folk poetry History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Folk songs Texts History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Metaphor.".
- catalog subject "Oral tradition.".
- catalog subject "PN1341 .T64 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "All concealed in the flap of his pants, metaphors and vernacular clarity -- One morning in May, our engagement with vernacular imagery -- It's dabbling in the dew where you might find me, some contexts of folksong metaphor -- üba d'Alm, regional context and cultural nuance -- I sowed some seeds all in some grove, multiple metaphors and meaning -- Riddles wisely expounded, poetic ambiguity in the riddle songs -- My golden cup is down the strand, wellsprings and channels of folksong nuance -- Epilogue: the golden skein and the bury new loom, the weaving of folksong metaphor.".
- catalog title "Morning dew and roses : nuance, metaphor, and meaning in folksongs / Barre Toelken.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".