Folklore and literature. Studies in the portuguese, brazilian, sephardic, and hispanic oral traditions

Abstract

Folklore and Literature is a collection of entertaining yet scholarly writing with something for every student of oral Romance literatures. Its author is well - known for his extensive work in the Hispano - Portuguese ballad tradition and his cycle of studies on many other medieval and early modern works of popular poetry and prose ( Celestina, Lozana andaluza ). His expertise, accumulated over long years of direct contact with folk song and folkways, is on ample display in this ambitiously sub titled collection of eight studies, complete with appendices of full texts that were only partially referred to in the studies, useful end notes, almost thirty pages of works cited – a sign of the extensive preparation that informs this collection – and, fin ally, three indexes: [1] Ballads, Popular Songs, and Folktales; [2] Euphemisms and Metaphors (a specialty of the author); and [3] Subjects and Proper Names.