Perspectives on the Jack Tales: And Other North American Marchen - Paperback

by Carl Lindahl (Author)

The essays in this volume reexamine common assumptions about "magic" tales and their tellers, reconsidering the performance, collection, transcription, publication, and interpretation of narratives that continue to live orally--especially in the private realm--as one mechanism of intergenerational communication or as a symbolic expression of worldview.

Author Biography

Carl Lindahl is Professor of English at the University of Houston.