Analytic Essays in Folklore

Title
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Contents
Preface
Section One: Folklore Theory and Method
1. The American Concept of Folklore
2. The Devolutionary Premise in Folklore Theory
3. The Study Of Folklore in Literature and Culture: Identification and Interpretation
4. Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore
5. Metafolklore and Oral Literary Criticism
Section Two: Structural Analysis of Folklore
6. From Etic to Emic Units in the Structural Study of Folktales
7. Structural Typology in North American Indian Folktales
8. On Game Morphology: A Study of The Structure of Non-Verbal Folklore
9. The Structure of Superstition
10. Toward a Structural Definition of the Riddle
11. On The Structure of the Proverb
Section Three: The Psychoanalytic Approach
12. On The Psychology of Collecting Folklore
13. Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male
14. Summoning Deity Through Ritual Fasting
15. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Grail
16. On the Psychology of Legend
Section Four: The Analysis of American Folklore
17. Here I Sit - A Study of American Latrinalia
18. On Elephantasy and Elephanticide
19. The Number Three in American Culture
20. Thinking Ahead: A Folkloristic Reflection of the Future Orientation in American Worldview
Bibliography
Index
Backmatter