Wood- brigde: D. S. Brewer/Rochester, N. Y.: Boydell & Brewer 2003. viii, 294 S. Davis, Dick: Panthea's Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances (Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series ...3). Princeton: Princeton University Press 2003. xiv, 216 S. Heidenreich, Bernd/Grothe, Ewald (Hrsg.): Kultur und Politik - Die Grimms. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society 2003/5763. vi, 290 S. Jesch, Tatjana (Hrsg.): Marchen in der Geschichte und Gegenwart des Deutschunter- richts (Beitrage zur Geschichte des Deutschunterrichts 53).
A fast reader and a prolific author, he published over thirty books (singleauthored, co-authored, and edited) and reportedly over 250 articles. ...his scholarly range was broad, touching upon nearly ...every aspect of folklore studies. Psychoanalytic interpretation appears already in two of his earliest essays-"Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male" (1962a) and "On the Psychology of Collecting Folklore" (1962b)-and it came to dominate his work.1' For the most part professional folklorists did not embrace his Freudianism, although they might acknowledge the brilliance of his analyses, leading Alan to be called-and to call himself-"a leader without followers." A superb anthologist and a masterful bibliographer, he edited many fine collections of essays on particular topics such as individual folktales (e.g., Little Red Riding Hood 1989), legends (e.g., The Blood Libel Legend 1991), folk beliefs (e.g., The Evil Eye 1981), ballads (e.g., The Walled-Up Wife 1996), and sports (The Cockfight 1994), as well as on general topics such as ethnic lore (Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel 1990), folkloristics (e.g., The Study of Folklore 1965 ), and even law (Folk Law Renteln and Dundes 1994 ) .10 This astonishing scholarly productivity was his heroic effort to convince the world that folklore was important, overwhelming scholars and lay readers alike with books and articles in such quantity that they could not be ignored. Throughout his career Alan delighted in provocation, a trait that was present from the first: in effect, the structuralism of his doctoral dissertation rejected the atomism of Stith Thompson's motifs, and his psychoanalytic interpretations issued an implicit challenge to his teacher Richard Dorson, who abhorred Freudian analyses of folklore.12 In the same spirit, Alan's recent books on the Bible (Dundes 1999) and the Qur'an (Dundes 2003) treated sacred texts in unconventional ways.
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Several books on sociology including "Communism and the Remorse of an Innocent Victimizer" by Zlatko Anguelov, "Leviathan Transformed: Seven National States in the New Century" edited by Theodore ...Caplow, and "The Shabbat Elevator and Other Sabbath Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and Jewish Character" by Alan Dundes are reviewed.
Hollis comments on the errors on the literary works of Alan Dundes and fails to represent certain meanings and signs in ancient Egyptian civilization. The knowledge of learning this ancient ...civilization only emphasizes that an examination of an ancient tale such as Dundes' tale, one must take into consideration its full context, not always an easy proposition.
Dundes discusses some of the campus folklore of the University of Southern California, including the stereotypes of the dumb athlete and the wealthy undergraduate. Parodies of applications for ...admission to the university are examined.
Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1998 (Raphael Patai Series of Jewish Folklore and Anthropo- logy). Lexington: University Press of Kentucky 1997. xv, 123 p. Gernant, Karen : Imagining Women. ...Danish Writer and Citizen of the World, ed.
ENGLISH LITERATURE TO 1660 INCLUDING GENERAL WORKS Boitani, Piero, and Anna Torti, eds. Reading the Middle Ages. Chaucer Yearbook: A Journal of Late Medieval Studies, Vol. 3 (1996). Holy Men and Holy ...Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Scholarship, Volume III. Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 26. TL· Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical Criticism. ... ed.
