McKean, Thomas A., editorUtah State University Press, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032003http://hdl.handle.net/10217/87770Includes bibliographical references and index.The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition.Now she's fairly altered her meaning: Interpreting narrative song -- Healing the spider's bite: "Ballad therapy" and Tarantismo / Luisa del Giudice -- Music, charm, and seduction in British traditional songs and ballads / Vic Gammon -- "Places she knew very well": the symbolic economy of women's travels in traditional Newfoundland ballads / Pauline Greenhill -- A good man is hard to find: positive masculinity in the ballads sung by Scottish women / Lynn Wollstadt -- Jesting with edge tools: the dynamics of a fragmentary ballad tradition / Gerald Porter -- The servant problem in child ballad / Roger deV. Renwick -- May Day and mayhem: portraits of a holiday in eighteenth-century Dublin ballads / Cozette Griffin Kremer -- Malign forces that can punish and pardon: structure and motif -- An oddity of Catalan folk songs and ballad / Simon Furey -- "Barbara Allen" and "The Gypsy Laddie": single-rhyme ballads in the child corpus / William Bernard McCarthy -- The motif of poisoning in Ukrainian ballads / Larysa Vakhnina -- Contexts and interpretations: the walled-up wife ballad and other related texts / Nicolae Constantinescu -- Recapturing the journey: cruxes of context, version, and transmission -- The life and times of Rosie Anderson / Sheila Douglas -- Scholar, Antischolar: Sir Alexander Gray's translations of the Danish ballads / Larry Syndergaard -- "George Collins" in Hampshire / David Atkinson -- From France to Brazil via Germany and Portugal: the meandering journey of a traditional ballad / J.J. Dias Marques -- "The White Fisher": an illegitimate child ballad from Aberdeenshire / Julia C. Bishop.born digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact University Press of Colorado at https://upcolorado.com/our-books/rights-and-permissions for use information.Ballads -- History and criticismFolk literature -- History and criticismTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.