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The second volume to the Texas Folklore Society history covers from the McCarthy era to the end of the wild and woolly sixties. Includes the publishing history of the TFS books, anecdotes about the gatherings of the Society (including Hermes Nye starting the tradition of the hootenanny at Texas Folklore Society meetings in 1956), and the emphasis on singing beginning at Society gatherings. The Texas Folklore Society was thirty-five years old in 1944, having come into existence under the hands of John Avery Lomax and Leonidas Warren Payne in 1909. J. Frank Dobie held the reins of the Society from 1922 to 1943, when he turned the direction to Mody Coggin Boatright. Allen Maxwell and Wilson Hudson followed as editors of Society publications. These were the years when the Society lost J. Frank Dobie and Leonidas Payne, but it gained such notables as F. E. Abernethy, Jim Byrd, Ed Gaston, William Owens, Américo Paredes, Mabel Major, LaVerne Harrell, Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, John Q. Anderson, George Hendricks, Martin Shockley, James Ward Lee, Faye Leeper, and Ruth Dodson.

Folklore --- Texas Folklore Society. --- Folklore Society of Texas --- Folk-lore Society of Texas --- Texas Folk-lore Society

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"This book shows how folklore--magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants--is still alive and well in the modern mass media. . . . contains a wealth of facts and observations with which to conjure." --Journal of Communication"Dégh brings her decades of expertise in folk narrative to bear in this well-researched, provocative study of the interrelationship between traditional processes of folk narrative performances and modern mass media. . . . Highly recommended . . . " --Choice"Spanning folk cultural developments as old as feudalism and as new as today's TV ad, American Folklore and the Mass Mediademonstrates how vital folklore remains, how often it absorbs--rather than being absorbed by--the most dramatic technological innovations and social realignments." --Carl Lindahl". . . all six essays are meaty and informative contributions to vital folkloric issues . . ." --Contemporary Legend

Folklore --- Mass media --- Popular culture --- #VCV monografie 2000 --- Folk-lore, American --- FOLKLORE --- MASS MEDIA --- POPULAR CULTURE --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Mass Media --- Popular Culture --- Social Science --- Social science

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Although they are as commonplace as our backyards, birds remain wild, unpossessed by humans, living "beside us, but alone," as Matthew Arnold observes and as Leonard Lutwack explores in this study of the depiction of birds in literature. The very attributes that make birds so familiar - their flight and song - retain an air of mystery that sets them apart from other animals. They appear to exist effortlessly in a state of mixed animal and spiritual being that humans long to attain. This simultaneous familiarity and transcendence gives birds a wide range of meaning in the works that Luwack describes. His examples - both expected and surprising - come in some measure from Greco-Roman writers but primarily from the poetry and prose of American and British writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lutwack divides his material into five sections: birds in poetry and as metaphor, including the classical nightingale and the swan and the birds of such poets as Dickinson, Whitman, and Stevens; birds and the supernatural, including ancient beliefs in birds as images and disguised gods as well as some interesting modern revivals of bird-gods - the quetzal in Lawrence, the crow in Ted Hughes, and the hawk in Jeffers; birds that are trapped, hunted, or killed in sacrifice, such as Coleridge's albatross, Ibsen's wild duck, Chekhov's seagull, and Kosinski's painted bird; birds and the erotic, with special emphasis on Lawrence's juxtaposition of birds and lovers, the association of white birds with chastity, and the traditional identification of women with docile birds and men with raptors; and a section on literature and the future of birds that includes strategies for dealing with the increasing threat to real birds posed by humans. Literature has made and must continue to make the reading public sensitive to nature, Lutwack writes, and literary birds may prove to be our best link to it.

Birds in literature. --- Birds --- Birds in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- Birds (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Folk-lore of birds --- Folklore

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Folklore --- -Material culture --- -Culture --- Technology --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- Carinthia (Austria) --- -Social life and customs --- -Carinthia (Austria) --- Culture --- Kärnten (Austria) --- Koroška (Austria) --- Karantanija (Austria) --- Carantania (Austria) --- Koruška (Austria) --- Carinthia (Duchy) --- Social life and customs. --- Moser, Oskar --- Austria

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God --- Polarity --- Attributes. --- Religious aspects. --- 291.21 --- -Polarity --- -Antithesis --- Contrariety --- Opposites --- Dialectic --- Opposition, Theory of --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Monotheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Onderwerp van de godsdienst: goden en geesten; aanbidding; godensagen --- Attributes --- Religious aspects --- -Onderwerp van de godsdienst: goden en geesten; aanbidding; godensagen --- 291.21 Onderwerp van de godsdienst: goden en geesten; aanbidding; godensagen --- -291.21 Onderwerp van de godsdienst: goden en geesten; aanbidding; godensagen --- Antithesis --- Polarity (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Polarity (Religion) --- Attributes of God --- God - Attributes. --- Polarity - Religious aspects.