The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts

• Main Author: Atkinson, David
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Open Book Publishers 2014
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Ballad; ballad studies; ballads; Biography, Literature and Literary studies; critique génétique; Ethnic; folk songs; Language & Literature; Literary studies: general; Literature (General); Literature: history and criticism; Music; Oral tradition; oral transmission; textual scholarship; literature; folklore; music; ballad; musique; littérature; ballade

This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter Table of Contents References and Abbreviations List of Illustrations Preface 1.: Where Is the Ballad? 2.: On the Nature of Evidence 3.: Textual Authority and the Sources of Variance 4.: The Material Ballad 5.: Sound and Writing 6.: Agency, Intention, and the Problem of Version 7.: Palimpsest or texte génétique 8.: Afterword: Select Bibliography Index Back Matter
• Intro -- Contents -- References and Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Where Is the Ballad? -- 2. On the Nature of Evidence -- 3. Textual Authority and the Sources of Variance -- 4. The Material Ballad -- 5. Sound and Writing -- 6. Agency, Intention, and the Problem of Version (with a brief history of ballad editing) -- 7. Palimpsest or texte génétique -- 8. Afterword: 'All her friends cried out for shame' -- Select Bibliography -- Index