Course Syllabus
Take Home Exam
The semester
As requested, notes, beginning with Fraser on January 30, and some salvaged from elsewhere
- January 5
- First day business
- January 10
- Rosenberg, “Folklore in Atlantic Canada”
- January 12
- Jack, “Maliseet Legends”; Speck, “Micmac Tales”
- January 17
- Fauset, “Tales from the Half-Breeds”
- January 19
- Brodie, Introduction to Fraser
- January 24
- Fraser: Introductory, Chapters 1, 2, and 3
- January 26
- Fraser: Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7
- January 31
- Fraser: Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12
- February 2
- Fraser: Chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16
- February 7
- Creighton, “Folklore of Victoria Beach”
- February 9
- [Cancelled due to snow]
- February 14
- Ives, “Burning Ship”; “Satirical Songs
- February 16
- Narváez, Tracks 1-27
- February 28
- Pocius, “Hooked Rugs” (Janna's Handout)
- March 2
- Thomas, “Functions of the Newfoundland Outhouse” (Tracy and Faith's Handout)
- March 7
- Bauman, “Belsnickling” (Maggie and Rebecca's Handout)
- March 9
- Narváez, “Tricks and Fun” (Allan's Handout)
- March 14
- Bauman, “The Lahave General Store”
- March 16
- Tallman, “You Can Almost Picture It” (Hannah's Handout)
- March 21
- Tye, “Local Characters” (Daniel M's and Daniel G's Handouts)
- March 23
- Labelle, “Native Witchcraft Beliefs” (Mark and Ramona's Handout)
- March 28
- Lovelace, “Jack and His Masters” (Ryan's Handout)
- March 30
- McDavid, “The Fiddle Burning Priest” (Robert and Caelin's Handout)
- April 4
- Take home exam discussed; course evaluations
Online articles
These are best accessed fom on-campus: you can get them from home, but you'll have to log in through the library and then search for them all over again.
Bauman, Richard. 1972. Belsnickling in a Nova Scotia Island Community. Western Folklore 31.4: 229-243. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1498220
Bauman, Richard. 1972. The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community. Journal of American Folklore 85.338: 330-343. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/539322
Creighton, Helen. 1950. Folklore of Victoria Beach, Nova Scotia. Journal of American Folklore 63.248: 131-146. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/537152
Fauset, Arthur Huff. 1925. Folklore from the Half-Breeds in Nova Scotia. Journal of American Folklore 38.148: 300-315. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/535032
Ives, Edward D. 1962. Satirical Songs in Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Journal of the International Folk Music Council 14: 65-69. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/835562
Ives, Sandy. 1958. The Burning Ship of Northumberland Strait: Some Notes on that Apparition. Midwest Folklore 8.4: 199-203. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/4317752
Jack, Edward. 1895. Maliseet Legends. Journal of American Folklore 8.30: 193-208. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/534094
LaBelle, Ronald. 2008. Native Witchcraft Beliefs in Acadian, Maritime and Newfoundland Folklore. Ethnologies 30.2: 137-152. Available at http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/019949ar
Lovelace, Martin. 2001. Jack and His Masters: Real Worlds and Tale Worlds in Newfoundland Folktales. Journal of Folklore Research 38.1-2: 149-170. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/3814806
McDavid, Jodi. 2008. The Fiddle Burning Priest of Mabou. Ethnologies 30.2 115-136. Available at http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/019948ar
Narváez, Peter. 1994. “Tricks and Fun”: Subversive Pleasures at Newfoundland Wakes. Western Folklore 53.4: 263-293. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1499450
Pocius, Gerald. 1979. Hooked Rugs in Newfoundland: The Representation of Social Structure in Design. Journal of American Folklore 92.365: 273-284. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/539415
Speck, F. G. 1915. Some Micmac Tales from Cape Breton Island. Journal of American Folklore 28.107: 59-69. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/534558
Tallman, Richard S. 1974. “You Can Almost Picture It”: The Aesthetic of a Nova Scotia Storyteller. Folklore Forum 7.2: 121-130. Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/1345
Thomas, Gerald. 1989. Functions of the Newfoundland Outhouse. Western Folklore 48.3. 221-243. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1499740
Tye, Diane. 1989. Local Character Anecdotes: A Nova Scotia Case Study. Western Folklore 48.3: 181-199. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/1499738