The Cheat Sheet
Syllabus
Analysis Assignment Description
Link to Motif-Index of Folk Literature: Electronic Edition
(On-campus resource)List of Additional Required Readings
Articles with hyperlinks are available online through JSTOR. It is easiest to access these links from an on-campus computer: from off-campus you will need to log in.
Articles without hyperlinks are on reserve in the library.
- Bascom, William. 1965. “The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives.” Journal of American Folklore 78.307: 3-20.
- Blache, Martha. 1999. “The Anecdote as a Symbolic Expression of the Social and Cultural Milieu of Journalists.” Folklore 110: 49-55.
- Brodie, Ian. 2004. “Einstein’s Pants and Dr. X’s Comps: Straddling the Line Between Gossip and Legend.” Culture & Tradition 26: 11-25.
- Cody, Cornelia. 2005. “‘Only in New York’: The New York City Personal Experience Narrative.” Journal of Folklore Research 42.2: 217-244.
- Ellis, Bill. 2001. “What is a Legend?” and “When is a Legend?” Aliens, Ghosts and Cults: Legends We Live. 5-25; 58-74. Jackson: UP of Mississippi.
- Holbek, Bengt. 1989. “The Language of Fairy Tales.” Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies. Ed. Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP. 40-62.
- McDavid, Jodi and Ian Brodie. 2005. “Vladimir Propp, Meet Happy Gilmore: Adam Sandler and Vernacular Cinema.” Culture & Tradition 27 (2005): 7-23.
- Mukerji, Chandra. 1978. “Bullshitting: Road Lore among Hitchhikers.” Social Problems 25.3: 241-52.
- Mullen, Patrick B. 1972. “Modern Legend and Rumor Theory.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 9.2-3: 95-109.
- Olrik, Axel. “The Epic Laws of Folk Narrative.” The Study of Folklore. Ed. Alan Dundes. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965. 129-141.
- Stahl, Sandra K.D. 1977. “The Personal Narrative as Folklore.” Journal of the Folklore Institute 14.1-2: 9-30.
- Stone, Kay. 1975. “Things Walt Disney Never Told Us.” Journal of American Folklore 88.347: 42-50.