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Lädt ... The Jack Talesvon Richard Chase
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is a collection of tellings of the "Jack" tales - "Jack and the Bean Stalk" is well known, but there were many more. These versions were collected in North Carolina, where my mother was born. ( ) You know Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk? He got up to much more than just giant-killing. If I remember correctly, Richard Chase traveled around the southern Appalachians collecting all the Jack stories that had been passed down in the oral tradition for generations and this is the result. They probably get kind of predictable, but we used to fight over who got to check this out of our school library. This book was a lot of fun. This is a 1943 collection of Appalachian folk tales about Jack, the hero of the beanstalk story. Jack also kills a whole family of giants, tames wild critters, thwarts witches and devils, ties Death up in a sack, and has a pile of other adventures. Richard Chase collected the stories from storytellers he identifies, and he annotates extensively. He also amends some of the stories, but his notes let the interested reader know where he has left his fingerprints. It's a fascinating book. I first read this book in 1982 as a sophomore in high school taking a folklore and mythology course at Harvard Summer School. Back then, while enjoyable, it was an academic affair, leading to papers and comp lit. What a difference from my recent out loud readings to my six year old son. Speaking the words in the Appalachian dialect which Chase captures, I couldn't help having a southern drawl. Jack remains the quintessential Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn: clever, mischievous, cunning, successful and not above a mean prank. The Jack Tales are great for kids, though a bit violent in this PC age, as well as adults. They remain a rich resource for scholars who want to study their European roots. Above, all, this is true American literature in its rawest and purest form. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A collection of folk tales from the southern Appalachians that center on a single character, the irrepressible Jack. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)398.2Social sciences Customs, Etiquette, Folklore Folklore Folk literatureKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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