English Riddles in Oral Tradition

Taylor, Archer

ISBN 10: 1888215704 / ISBN 13: 9781888215700

Published by Fathom Pub. Co., 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Riddles in Oral Tradition
• Publisher: Fathom Pub. Co.
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1888215704
• ISBN 13: 9781888215700
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

"This collection of riddles serves two purposes. It is, in the first place, a corpus of English traditional riddling ... . The widely scattered small collections of English popular riddles are here assembled and arranged systematically. An extensive view of the parallels and of related riddles provides a foundation for comparative studies." Archer Taylor

About the Author

Archer Taylor (August 1, 1890-September 30, 1973). Taylor earned his PhD at Harvard. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis 1915-25, University of Chicago 1925-39 and University of California, Berkeley 1939-58. Taylor published The Proverb (1931), its Index (1934) and Bibliography of Riddles (1939). Archer Taylor and Bartlett Jere Whiting published A Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880 (1958). He wrote A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies (1955) and General Subject-Indexes Since 1548 (1966). His library is at University of Georgia, except his ballad collection at University of California, Berkeley. More information at www.archertaylor.com.