Morning dew and roses : nuance, metaphor, and meaning in folksongs / Barre Toelken.
Toelken's lively exploration of folksongs and their meanings looks closely at a number of folksong and ballad texts. He discusses riddle songs and other ambiguous folksongs, as well as the various "ballad commonplaces," treating them not as a fund of mindless cliches but as a reservoi...
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