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The Other Print Tradition: Essays on Chapbooks, Broadsides, and Related Ephemera (New Perspectives in Folklore) [Hardcover]

Cathy L. Preston (Editor), Michael J. Preston (Editor)

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Hardcover: 312 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0815303769
ISBN-13: 978-0815303763
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,821,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Historically, an ideology of "otherness" has undergirded the concept of "the folk": "they" are not like "us." Read the first page

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silver art bars, elongated cents, cheap print culture, drollery text, chapbook publishing, jocular literature, privileged registers, broadside text, chapbook tradition, chapbook publishers, round tuits, holy cards, privileged narrator, metaphorical appropriation, print tradition, chapbook versions, wooden nickels, folklore scholarship, urban folklore, cultural register, street literature, ballad poetry, gender dominance, pleasant histories

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New York, Robinson Crusoe, The Jolly Trades-men, Western Folklore, Jovial Tinker, South Asian, The Maiden's Choice, Indiana University Press, United States, Lok Virsa, Rahman Gul, Cultural Literacy, Paperwork Empire, After Marriage, Cambridge University Press, Kegan Paul, Alan Dundes, Lord's Prayer, More Growing Up Catholic, The English Rover, The Other Print Tradition, Walter de Gruyter, Arthur Goldhammer, Bakht Munir, Columbia University Press

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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe on 12 pages
Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England (Past and Present Publications) by Margaret Spufford on 4 pages
Complete Book of Office Mispractice by Paul Smith on page 222, page 265, and Back Matter
Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing: Still More Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire (Humor in Life and Letters) by Alan Dundes on page 221, page 229, and page 264
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff on page 123, page 268, and page 283

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Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays (New Perspectives in Folklore) by Cathy L. Preston on page 81, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. by Elizabeth Wanning Harries in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Twice upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Classics and the Uses of Reception (Classical Receptions) by Charles Martindale in Back Matter
Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature by William Hansen in Back Matter

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