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Jack in Two Worlds
Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers
Bill Ellis(Editor)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. July 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-8078-4443-4 (ISBN)
Description
The ""Jack"" known to all of us from ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from actual performances by tellers and eight interpretive essays by leading folktale scholars. The ""two worlds"" in the book's title refer to the Jack tales' popularity first among traditional Appalachian taletellers and now among storytelling revivalists. The tellers included in this volume represent both worlds. Unlike previous collections of Jack tales, in which the stories were heavily revised and rewritten, the tales in this volume have been transcribed verbatim and are presented in a format that preserves much of the oral quality of the taletellers' craft. The result is a body of richly nuanced tales that can be read with pleasure both by scholars who are studying the Jack tale tradition and by general readers who love a good story. The taletellers are Stewart Cameron, Donald Davis, Ray Hicks, Bonelyn Lugg Kyofski, Maud Long, Frank Proffitt, Jr., Leonard Roberts, and Marshall Ward. The essayists are Bill Ellis, Carl Lindahl, William Bernard McCarthy, W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Cheryl Oxford, Joseph Daniel Sobol, Kay Stone, Ruth Stotter, and Kenneth A. Thigpen.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
583 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-4443-4 (9780807844434)
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Person
William Bernard McCarthy, professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, DuBois Campus, is author of The Ballad Matrix: Personality, Milieu, and the Oral Tradition.