All the World's Reward Folktales Told by Five Scandinavian Storytellers
- List Price: $50.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
- Publish date: 04/01/1999
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All the World's Reward presents 98 tales from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Swedish-speaking Finland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their world. Some preferred jocular stories and others wonder tales; some performed mostly for adults, others for children; some used storytelling to criticize society, and others spun wish fulfillment tales to find relief from a harsh reality.
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For the most part collected a century ago, the stories were gleaned from archives and printed sources; the Icelandic repertoire was collected on audiotape in the 1960s. Each repertoire has been selected by a noted folklorist, who also contributed an introduction to the storyteller and collector and provided commentaries and references for the tales. A general introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and an index of the tales according to Aarne-Thompson's typology are also included. Period illustrations add charm to the stories.
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