Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre

From: Journal of American Folklore | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Legend and Belief: Dialectics of a Folklore Genre. By Linda Degh. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Pp. viii + 498, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.)

Linda Degh's scholarship on legend is familiar to folklorists through her illustrious series of publications, especially the 1973-1983 articles written with her late husband, Andrew Vazsonyi, on legend and belief, the memorate, the multiconduit hypothesis, truth in modern legends, and ostensive action. Underpinning all is a conviction that "the self-collected item is the crucial first step toward scholarly interpretation" ...

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