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35741
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The author reviews the novel, pointing out the particular folkways in the writing, such as riddles, speech, and folktales.
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35722
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In the novel “The Wedding Guest,” author Ovid Pierce included many different folkways, including proverbs, folk beliefs, animal lore, ghosts, and more.
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35658
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In response to a scathing review of the Foxfire book in a previous issue, Wigginton defends and addresses the criticism made about his book.
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35601
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In 1972, Doris Betts wrote the novel “The River to Pickle Beach,” about life in a small North Carolina town. Betts imbued her work with folkloric elements, such as superstitions and speech, native to North Carolina; in this article, Moose highlights those elements and explains some of them.
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35616
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By using “The Wife of Bath,” a story within Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the author takes an in-depth look at how perceptions in society may have changed the meaning of the proverbs used in the story between the 14th century and the present.
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35629
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The Foxfire Book was a collection of folklore collected by students from their grandmothers. Dorson reviews the process and outcomes of the study, which he deemed unskilled and did not meet the criteria of folklore.
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35495
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This is a synopsis of the novel Sea-Gift, written by Edwin W. Fuller in 1873. The author of the article believes this to be the earliest example of tall tale narratives in America.
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35536
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The author issues a response with some clarifications to an analysis done on her novel Rain on the Just. The analysis, done by John Foster West, was a part of a previous issue of NC Folklore, published in March 1971.
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35446
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Kathleen Morehouse wrote Rain on the Just in the latter half of the nineteenth century, about the fictional Allen family in Wilkesboro, NC. A synopsis of the novel is given, and then the elements of folklore, particularly folk speech, are identified and discussed.
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35447
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Romulus Linney wrote Heathen Valley in 1962 about a group of peoples residing in the North Carolina Mountains and how they responded to an overly zealous missionary. The story is filled with folk speech, myths, traditional medicine, and other folk elements to portray the characters as accurately as possible.
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35453
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Season of Fear, written by Guy Owen in 1960, is about a lonely, middle-aged man whose hindered psychological developments and sexual frustrations lead him to commit violent acts. The book is riddled with imagery pertaining to sexuality, particularly from serpents and reptiles.
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35253
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This is a book review of “Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book.”
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38228
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A book review of Mourning Dove Studies in North Carolina.
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