The Penguin Dictionary of American Folklore 企鹅美国民俗辞典【英文版，精装16开无酸纸第一次印刷】裸书1.2公斤重
尺寸：24.3cm × 19.8cm
￥ 228 九品
库存2件
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作者Alan Axelrod & Harry Oster
出版社Penguin Reference
ISBN9780670887521
出版时间2000
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页数545页
上书时间2024-07-01
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A generously illustrated reference to American folklore covers the heroes, music, vampire tales, urban legends, and weather stories that make up the vast, variegated network of American myth.
Alan Axelrod and Harry Oster have done a great service to the folklorists of the world. Their Dictionary of American Folklore--an encyclopedic compilation of 750 entries enhanced by 228 photographs and drawings--honors, defines, and explains the many components that make up the patchwork quilt of American folklore. And for every subject they treat, they provide a thorough picture, from all angles. Take music, for example. Axelrod and Oster include musicians such as Elvis, Stephen Foster, Bessie Smith, and Burl Ives; specific songs such as "I Gave My Love a Cherry," and "Shenandoah"; music genres such as jazz, blues, rap, and, naturally, folk music; and instruments such as the harmonica and the fiddle.
In addition to music, there are entries on history, politics, economy, and civil movements. Numerous pages are devoted to Abraham Lincoln, and there are biographies for Joe Hill, Eliot Ness, Crazy Horse, and Henry Ford, as well. The Dictionary discusses graffiti, ghost stories, and Ouiji boards, architectural trends such as Colonial Revival, and a variety of humor genres, from tall tales and playing the Dirty Dozens to telling Dumb Dora and Little Willie jokes. There are entries for painters, such as Norman Rockwell; dancers, such as Martha Graham; and crafts, including passages on quilts and tattoos. And there are sports figures (Yogi Berra's sayings get a full treatment), and writers, too, such as Zora Neale Hurston, Herman Melville, and H.L. Mencken.
The A-to-Z design enables fast access if you know what you want to look up, but it also provides seemingly endless opportunities for happy browsing. Open to the M's and you'll find Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and midwives. Skip back to the J's and there's the jitterbug, John Henry, and Juneteenth. Tailor-made for folklorists, historians, and American Studies students, The Folklore Dictionary is a boon to anyone with browsing time to spare.
Alan Axelrod is a renowned historian and business writer. He was the co author of the New York Times bestseller What Every American Should Know About American History as well as the BusinessWeek bestsellers Patton on Leadership and Elizabeth I, CEO. He has written extensively on the Civil War.
Harry Oster is a folklorist and professor emeritus of English and American studies at the University of Iowa.
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