SIGRID RIEUWERTS (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH/MAINZ UNIVERSITY) General Editor’s Preface JOSEPH HARRIS, BARBARA HILLERS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) Acknowledgements BARBARA HILLERS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) Introduction CHILD AND THE BALLAD IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY MARY ELLEN BROWN (INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON) From Pastiche to Collection: The Progress of Francis James Child SIGRID RIEUWERTS (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH/MAINZ UNIVERSITY) “To make a clean sweep of the whole field”: Harvard, Child, and the Ballads ANN WIERDA ROWLAND (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS) The Childish Origins of Literary Studies STEVE NEWMAN (TEMPLE UNIVERSITY) “The Dramatic Situation” and “The Imagined Community”: Academic Tales of the Ballad from Philology to the New Criticism and Beyond SOME CHILD BALLADS AND THEIR CONTEXTS EMILY LYLE (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH) “Robin Hood in Barnesdale stood”: A New Window on the “Gest” and its Precursors ANNE DHU MCLUCAS (UNIVERSITY OF OREGON) “To the Tune of. ”: The Robin Hood Legacy in Music STEPHEN A. MITCHELL (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) “very dark to me. very clear to you.”: Child, Grundtvig, Laurenson, and “King Orfeo” (Child 19) THOMAS D. HILL (CORNELL UNIVERSITY) The “Corpus Christi Carol” and the Yonec /“Canary Prince” Tradition MAUREEN N. MCLANE (NEW YORK UNIVERSITY) Child 26 and Poiesis Unbound THE BALLAD AND INTERNATIONAL SONG TRADITIONS JOSEPH HARRIS (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) Eddic Poetry and the Ballad: Voice, Vocality, and Performance, with Special Reference to DgF 1 JAN M. ZIOLKOWSKI (DUMBARTON OAKS/HARVARD UNIVERSITY) Walter of Aquitaine in Spanish Ballad Tradition MATTHIEU BOYD (FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY/HARVARD UNIVERSITY) The Female Jailer: Commonplaces in the Gwerzioù MARGARET HARRISON (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) Gender in the Waulking Songs of Màiri nighean Alasdair AIDA VIDAN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) Gender and Genre in Traditional and Virtual Settings: Examples from the South Slavic Oral Heritage ANNA BONIFAZI (UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG) AND DAVID F. ELMER (HARVARD UNIVERSITY) The Meaning of Melody: Remarks on the Performance-Based Analysis of Bosniac Epic Song Notes on Contributorsweiterlesen