The Ballad and Its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory

by David Atkinson

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A new approach to the mysterious ballads, and their relationship with the past.

Katharine Briggs Award 2018: Runner Up

The ballad genre, and its material, are frequently backward-looking in terms of subject and style: it is ideally suited to the reimagining of past events, both real and fictional. This volume addresses the past of the ballad and the past in the ballad. It challenges existing scholarship by embracing discontinuity rather...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1843844923

ISBN13:9781843844921

Release Date:March 2018

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer

Length:242 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Music

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