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Tall Tale American Folklore Literature
University of Tennessee Press, 1989 Cloth: 978-0-87049-529-8 | Paper: 978-0-87049-627-1 Library of Congress Classification PS437.B76 1987 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.009
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Drawing on previous research and her own original fieldwork, the author develops a definition of the tall tale as a genre of folklore, and she then explores how tall tale methods and meanings have been translated into literary humor. The work moves from the Crockett Almanacs, sketches, newspaper hoaxes, and frontier frame tales to present new readings of such standard works as George Washington Harris’ Sut Lovingood and Mark Twain’s Autobiography. See other books on: American wit and humor | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology | Folklore in literature | Literature and folklore | Tall tales See other titles from University of Tennessee Press |
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Tall Tale American Folklore Literature
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University of Tennessee Press, 1989
Cloth: 978-0-87049-529-8
Paper: 978-0-87049-627-1
Cloth: 978-0-87049-529-8
Paper: 978-0-87049-627-1
Drawing on previous research and her own original fieldwork, the author develops a definition of the tall tale as a genre of folklore, and she then explores how tall tale methods and meanings have been translated into literary humor.
The work moves from the Crockett Almanacs, sketches, newspaper hoaxes, and frontier frame tales to present new readings of such standard works as George Washington Harris’ Sut Lovingood and Mark Twain’s Autobiography.
Brown views the tall tale as a challenge and an entertainment as well as a story that identifies and binds a folk group and helps people to cope with a stressful world.
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