Europe – Folklore Forum

Multilocality and the narration of place meanings in an Irish story

Multilocality and the narration of place meanings in an Irish story Chad Buterbaugh Indiana University Professional Irish storytelling reaches an audience well beyond Ireland, yet many stories are infused with…

The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale

20 Aug 201220 Aug 2012

Tamar Alexander-Frizer. The Heart is a Mirror: The Sephardic Folktale. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008. Xiv + 690 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8143-2971-9. $65.00 Hardcover. David Elton Gay Indiana University The…

Testimony and Truth after Auschwitz

Testimony and Truth After Auschwitz Sarah Gordon Indiana University Abstract: Survivor testimony of the Holocaust often deviates from historical fact. Postmodern theory allows for the near nihilation of that testimony…

Within Their Own Seams: 19th Century Fashion and the Management of the Body in Women’s Literature and Letters

Within Their Own Seams: 19th Century Fashion and the Management of the Body in Women's Literature and Letters Kristiana Willsey Indiana University Abstract: Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1855 novel, North and South,…

David Buchan and James Moreira, eds. The Glenbuchat Ballads

5 Nov 20085 Apr 2010

David Buchan and James Moreira, eds. The Glenbuchat Ballads. University Press of Mississippi, 2007. Pp. lxxiv + 274, multiple indices, glossary. $60.00 hardbound. Sarah Lash Indiana University In the early…

Jack Zipes. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller.

22 Feb 200822 Feb 2008

Jack Zipes. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xvii + 171, bibliography, film bibliography, index. Steve Stanzak Indiana University As the subtitle suggests, this work…

Laura Gonzenbach. The Robber with a Witch’s Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales.

22 Feb 200822 Feb 2008

Laura Gonzenbach. The Robber with a Witch’s Head: More Stories from the Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales. Trans. Jack Zipes. New York: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xxxii+230. Illus.,…