Pathfinder for English 3540:
American Folklore and Literature
Selected Titles in the Madonna University Library
Reference Collection:
Ref GR35 F63 1997
Folklore: an encyclopedia of beliefs, customs, tales, music and art/ed. Thomas A. Green. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1997.
Ref GR35 M43 2000
Medieval Folklore: an encyclopedia of myths, legends, tales, beliefs, and customs/ ed. Carl Lindahl et al. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2000.
Ref GR74.6 H35 2002
Ariadne’s Thread: a guide to international tales found in classical literature/ William Hansen. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2002.
Ref GR101 A54 1996
American Folklore: an encyclopedia/ ed. Jan Harold Brunvand. New York: Garland, 1996.
Ref GR105.34 B78 2001
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends/ Jan Harold Brunvand. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2001.
Circulating Collection:
BL304 S444 2004
Myth: a very short introduction/ Robert Alan Segal. New York: OUP, 2004.
GR40 F47 1994
The Folklore Text: from performance to print/ Elizabeth C. Fine. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994.
GR41.3 B46 2003
Cycles of Influence: fiction, folktale, theory/ Stephen Benson. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.
GR43 C4 Y64 2000
Touch Magic: fantasy, faerie & folklore in the literature of childhood/ Jane Yolen. Little Rock: August House, 2000.
GR43 D3 1993
A Study of American Deaf Folklore/ Susan Dell Rutherford. Burtonville: Linstock Press, 1993.
GR55 G75 P37
Clever Maids: the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales/ Valarie Paradiz. New York: Basic, 2005.
GR55 H86 A3 1995
Folklore, memoirs, and other writings/ Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Library of American, 1995.
GR71 D86 2007
The Meaning of Folklore: the analytical essays of Alan Dundes/ed. Simon J. Bronner. Logan: Utah State UP: 2007.
GR71 I46 1999
International Folkloristics: classic contributions by the founders of folklore/ ed. Alan Dundes. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
GR74 Z56 2002
Breaking the Magic Spell: radical theories of folk and fairy tales/ Jack Zipes. Lexington: U Press of Kentucky, 2002.
GR75 L56 L58 1989
Little Red Riding Hood: a casebook/ ed. Alan Dundes. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
GR 105 B716 2001
The truth never stands in the way of a good story/ Jan Harold Brunvand. Urbana: U of Illinois Press, 2001.
The library has a variety of folk tales and fairy tales from different cultures and countries: access the Madonna Library Catalog to find material on these subjects, select “Subject Browse” or “Subject Keyword” and use the term “Tales” or “Fairy Tales”
Selected Databases provided by Madonna University Library (use these databases to find academic/peer-reviewed articles on your topic, many in full-text, all accessible off-campus by password)
Academic OneFile (Gale)
ProQuest Research Library (ProQuest)
Humanities Full Text (WilsonWeb)
MLA International Bibliography (CSA)
Full-text electronic journals (a list of relevant full-text journals may be accessed from this link. Click on the link, then open the drop-down window under “Browse e-journals by subject,” select “Social Sciences” and click on “search.” Under the first bullet “Anthropology” you will find “Folklore” with its (21) titles. Above and below “Folklore” you will find journals in a variety of other related subject areas.
Selected Web-based Resources
The American Folklore Society (professional home of folklorists and folklife scholars)
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Culture Heritage (provides links to Smithsonian Folklife festival, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives)
StoryCorps: the conversation of a lifetime (this nonprofit site contains tens of thousands of interviews conducted by family and friends, begun in 2003)
Michigan State University Museum (under “Programs and Partnerships” access Folkpatterns and the Great Lakes Quilt Center; under “Hosted Sites” the Great Lakes Folk Festival and Great Lakes Folk Resources). Look under “Exhibitions” for Travelling Exhibition Service)
The American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress (national clearinghouse for folklife services with numerous guides – e.g. “A Teachers Guide to Folklife Resources” and links)
TAPNET: Traditional Arts Programs Net (National Endowment for the Arts supported links to numerous folklore and traditional arts program sites)
Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts (compiled by retired University of Pittsburgh Professor D.L Ashliman, this site contains full text variants of narratives, arranged alphabetically by title, category, and theme. Additional links to a large range of folklore related sites provided at the bottom of the page, updated to 2006)
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairy Tales and Stories (constructed and maintained (?) by Zvi Har’El of the Mathematics Department of the Israel Institute of Technology (“ Technion”), with introductory notes, annotations, and photographs)
Tales Collected by the Brothers Grimm (project funded by the Memorial University of Newfoundland and directed by William Barker, now President of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
http://myweb.dal.ca/barkerb/fairies/grimm/
Berea College Sound Archives (the Appalachian Sound Archives of non-commercial sound and video recordings)
http://brushyforkinstitute.org/hutchinslibrary/specialcollections/specialsound.asp
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W.Vine 4/30/09; Updated 7/27/09