Jonathan Roper Editor (4 results)

Condition: Very good. - Narrow octavo [9 inches high by 4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial dark & light green wrappers. The binding is very lightly bumped with the extremities slightly darkened. 57 pages. Illustrations, including cover illustration, by Kenneth Smith & 2 full-page illustrations in black & gray after drawings by Barbara Bushway Gilpin. The contents are near fine. Very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hard cover. Clean and unmarked. Very tight binding. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 246 p. Includes: index, bibliography. "What does Elias Lönnrot have in common with Vladimir Dahl, Antoni Maria Alcover and the Brothers Grimm? The answer is that all of these folklorists were also lexicographers. And there is much folklore data buried in dictionaries, whether compiled by those who were folklorists or by those who were not. Thus dictionaries represent a notable source of folklore data supplementary to the already familiar field, archival and monographic sources. This book attempts to take the measure of such data with a set of studies ranging from Greece to England, and from Newfoundland to Trinidad and Tobago. An introductory essay discusses the location of folklore within dictionaries. Then the first of the three main sections of the book deals with the role folklore has played in the formation of certain remarkable dictionaries. This is followed by a series of case studies of the folklore content of particular dictionaries. And the book closes with a set of studies that address the methodological issues that using dictionaries as folklore sources raises.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 253 pages. 9.00x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.