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North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, 2022
This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters ... more This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters in the Kentucky mountains from 1770 to the present, beginning with Daniel Boone's narratives of giants, conflated with stories of Yahoos borrowed from Swift's Gulliver's Travels; continuing through sightings and legends of the 19th and 20th centuries; and culminating with a tale focused on the mating of human male and an apelike female and the death of their half-human child.
A fuller abstract is provided here by book's editor, David J. Puglia
Journal of American Folklore, Jul 1, 1988
In Ernest Games Carl Lindahl recovers a folkloric world long hidden from readers of Chaucer. Lind... more In Ernest Games Carl Lindahl recovers a folkloric world long hidden from readers of Chaucer. Lindahl is the first critic to demonstrate how the poem reflects the social and artistic patterns of medieval folk performance. Combining current approaches from the fields of literary criticism, social history, and folklore, Earnest Games begins with a study of Chaucer's setting and characters. Lindahl discovers that Chaucer gives each community the gentils, the churls, and the pilgrims a game strategy that faithfully reflects the social realities of the English Middle Ages."
Journal of American Folklore, 2004
The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaki... more The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaking. What may have satisfied a dissertation director, an advisory committee, and a small group of readers as regards contents, originality, structure, tone, and style of the issues discussed and the arguments advanced and made persuasive, often fails to impress a non-academic audience. The doctoral thesis submitted by Donald Braid and approved by Indiana University in 1996, with the title "The Negotiation of Meaning and Identity in the Narratives of the Travelling People of Scotland," may therefore well have raised an eyebrow or two when considered for publication outside its original domicile. Fortunately, the intellectual preciousness of the title did not deter the University of Mississippi Press from turning the thesis into a book called Scottish Traveller Tales, with the telling, but somewhat one-sided subtitle Lives Shaped through Stories, and the editors at the Press responsible for commissioning and then nursing it through the preparatory phase are to be congratulated on having had the foresight necessary to recognize this work' s potentially wider appeal. What has struck this reader from the beginning and has accompanied his reactions throughout his reading performance is the unmistakable fact that the narrative of this book is in itself a personal experience story and that consequently the frequent use of the first person singular pronoun in conveying the author' s voice is not incongruous or inappropriate but well suited in the voicing of his account. (This reviewer has not seen the original thesis, but if the dissertation director and other guiding hands in the Folklore Institute permitted this usage in the dissertation even in its academic guise, they should be applauded likewise for their tolerance.) In the kind of book which the thesis has become it does, of course, not jar at all. The autobiographical mode of presentation which this stylistic usage allows is, not unexpectedly, particularly noticeable in the "Introduction" (1-50) which, in the course of narrating the "genesis" of the book, relates how the physicist and engineering technician Donald Braid, having turned storyteller and investigator of oral storytelling, is directed by the legendary Hamish Henderson to Duncan Williamson, one of the great Traveller storytellers of our time, and-how is this for effectiveness?-sitting on his backpack by the roadside reading one of Duncan' s books in preparation for his first encounter, is observed by the storyteller himself who, approaching him, addresses him with the words, "What do you think of my book? I am Duncan Williamson" (5). No wonder Duncan becomes the door through which Braid enters the world of Scottish Traveller storytelling and also becomes his foremost mentor, both as a frequent performer of stories and a knowledgeable, thoughtful historian,
Journal of American Folklore, 2001
... I eventually succumbed to Santino's request, but not without serious misgivings. ...... more ... I eventually succumbed to Santino's request, but not without serious misgivings. ... AsPatricia Sawin's article (this issue) explains in fine detail, Mardi Gras communities vary greatly in the nature and degree of disguise they employ. ...
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress , 2004
This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs... more This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs tales recorded ca 1952 by R M Dorson, constitute narratives 47-61 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 183-217. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, Notes.
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress., 2004
Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklif... more Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklife Center collections.
This introduction of the remarkable Maine narrator Joshua Alley, followed by nine of Alley’s tales recorded in 1934, constitute narratives 62-70 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 219-250. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, notes.
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004
These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collection... more These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), annotating all of the tales published in volume 1 of this 2-volume work. Several sections of vol. 1 are also posted on Academia. These include the tales ofJ.D. Suggs (part 3, tales 47-61), Joshua Alley (part 4, tales 62-70), and Jane Muncy Fugate (part 6, tales 76-85).
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004
This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of C... more This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), Vol. 1, pp. 279-333. The notes can also be found on Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales, Vol 1, Notes.
Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition, 1998
King Arthur's Modern Return, 1998
Routledge eBooks, Apr 12, 2019
Western Folklore, Jul 1, 1982
North American Monsters: A Contemporary Legend Casebook, 2022
This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters ... more This chapter traces sightings, legends, tall tales, and fantasy narratives of humanlike monsters in the Kentucky mountains from 1770 to the present, beginning with Daniel Boone's narratives of giants, conflated with stories of Yahoos borrowed from Swift's Gulliver's Travels; continuing through sightings and legends of the 19th and 20th centuries; and culminating with a tale focused on the mating of human male and an apelike female and the death of their half-human child.
A fuller abstract is provided here by book's editor, David J. Puglia
Journal of American Folklore, Jul 1, 1988
In Ernest Games Carl Lindahl recovers a folkloric world long hidden from readers of Chaucer. Lind... more In Ernest Games Carl Lindahl recovers a folkloric world long hidden from readers of Chaucer. Lindahl is the first critic to demonstrate how the poem reflects the social and artistic patterns of medieval folk performance. Combining current approaches from the fields of literary criticism, social history, and folklore, Earnest Games begins with a study of Chaucer's setting and characters. Lindahl discovers that Chaucer gives each community the gentils, the churls, and the pilgrims a game strategy that faithfully reflects the social realities of the English Middle Ages."
Journal of American Folklore, 2004
The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaki... more The translation of a PhD thesis into a book is a precarious, and not always successful, undertaking. What may have satisfied a dissertation director, an advisory committee, and a small group of readers as regards contents, originality, structure, tone, and style of the issues discussed and the arguments advanced and made persuasive, often fails to impress a non-academic audience. The doctoral thesis submitted by Donald Braid and approved by Indiana University in 1996, with the title "The Negotiation of Meaning and Identity in the Narratives of the Travelling People of Scotland," may therefore well have raised an eyebrow or two when considered for publication outside its original domicile. Fortunately, the intellectual preciousness of the title did not deter the University of Mississippi Press from turning the thesis into a book called Scottish Traveller Tales, with the telling, but somewhat one-sided subtitle Lives Shaped through Stories, and the editors at the Press responsible for commissioning and then nursing it through the preparatory phase are to be congratulated on having had the foresight necessary to recognize this work' s potentially wider appeal. What has struck this reader from the beginning and has accompanied his reactions throughout his reading performance is the unmistakable fact that the narrative of this book is in itself a personal experience story and that consequently the frequent use of the first person singular pronoun in conveying the author' s voice is not incongruous or inappropriate but well suited in the voicing of his account. (This reviewer has not seen the original thesis, but if the dissertation director and other guiding hands in the Folklore Institute permitted this usage in the dissertation even in its academic guise, they should be applauded likewise for their tolerance.) In the kind of book which the thesis has become it does, of course, not jar at all. The autobiographical mode of presentation which this stylistic usage allows is, not unexpectedly, particularly noticeable in the "Introduction" (1-50) which, in the course of narrating the "genesis" of the book, relates how the physicist and engineering technician Donald Braid, having turned storyteller and investigator of oral storytelling, is directed by the legendary Hamish Henderson to Duncan Williamson, one of the great Traveller storytellers of our time, and-how is this for effectiveness?-sitting on his backpack by the roadside reading one of Duncan' s books in preparation for his first encounter, is observed by the storyteller himself who, approaching him, addresses him with the words, "What do you think of my book? I am Duncan Williamson" (5). No wonder Duncan becomes the door through which Braid enters the world of Scottish Traveller storytelling and also becomes his foremost mentor, both as a frequent performer of stories and a knowledgeable, thoughtful historian,
Journal of American Folklore, 2001
... I eventually succumbed to Santino's request, but not without serious misgivings. ...... more ... I eventually succumbed to Santino's request, but not without serious misgivings. ... AsPatricia Sawin's article (this issue) explains in fine detail, Mardi Gras communities vary greatly in the nature and degree of disguise they employ. ...
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress , 2004
This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs... more This introduction of the remarkable African American narrator J.D. Suggs, followed by 15 of Suggs tales recorded ca 1952 by R M Dorson, constitute narratives 47-61 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 183-217. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, Notes.
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress., 2004
Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklif... more Joshua Alley's stories represent some of the longest and oldest memories in the American Folklife Center collections.
This introduction of the remarkable Maine narrator Joshua Alley, followed by nine of Alley’s tales recorded in 1934, constitute narratives 62-70 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 219-250. The notes to these tales may be found in another file posted to Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, Vol. 1, notes.
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004
These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collection... more These are the notes to tales 1 through 85 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), annotating all of the tales published in volume 1 of this 2-volume work. Several sections of vol. 1 are also posted on Academia. These include the tales ofJ.D. Suggs (part 3, tales 47-61), Joshua Alley (part 4, tales 62-70), and Jane Muncy Fugate (part 6, tales 76-85).
American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress, 2004
This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of C... more This introduction and the following oral performances of Jane Muncy Fugate constitute part 6 of Carl Lindahl, American Folktales from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004), Vol. 1, pp. 279-333. The notes can also be found on Academia: Lindahl, American Folktales, Vol 1, Notes.
Telling Tales: Medieval Narratives and the Folk Tradition, 1998
King Arthur's Modern Return, 1998
Routledge eBooks, Apr 12, 2019
Western Folklore, Jul 1, 1982
The Mythos as MythUs summer school program studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to ... more The Mythos as MythUs summer school program studies myth and popular narrative, from antiquity to the present, as being humanity’s voice, long-shared, with which to respond to harsh realities; to times of crisis; and to distress that impacts entire communities. In such times of transition and upheaval myth and narrative serve to ameliorate the inimical stereotyping, bigoted notions, and segregation that these challenging circumstances inevitably bring. In its role of healing, narrative has been not just preserved but also transformed, in all its oral, written, digital, and, of late, even contemporary literary forms, not just in terms of its atavistic world of archaic symbolism but in fact most markedly through being called on in confronting, via poetic means, problems, ideas, and emotions that are communal as well as individual -- as a result of which transformative therapeutic dimension, narrative continues to update, on an ongoing basis, in altogether dynamic ways.
This Summer School is a blended-learning program that consists of an online preparation class and a ten-day live attendance summer school of face-to-face classes in Athens as well as fieldwork on the island of Antiparos, Cyclades, and five group and/or guided tours in and around Attica and Athens.
The program includes 9 modules divided into 3 groups, each focusing on a different topic:
Topic 1: Myth in Ancient Greek and other Ancient Cultures
Topic 2: The Role of Myth in Response to Dread, Disruption, and Disaster
Topic 3: Narrating in Modern and Contemporary Society
Each student will select a Topic of study on the basis of the module and syllabi descriptions provided below. The series of introductory, in-person lectures will include all students, but each module will have different preparatory work, readings, and seminars/workshops.
The Program is open to Bachelor's, Master and PhD international students, as well as Greek English-speaking ones, with an interest in myth and its contemporary research and applications, and a study background in Humanities and Social Sciences, focusing on Classics, Folklore Studies, History and Cultural Studies.
The instructors of the courses include world-famous scholars of Classics and Folklore, notably Carl Lindahl and William Hansen. Internationally recognized experts from Greece, Italy, the USA, and Sweden are also on the team: Marianthi Kaplanoglou, Aphrodite Nounanaki, Sophia Papaioannou, Ioannis Konstantakos (Athens), Christos Zafiropoulos (Patras), George Katsadoros (Univ. of the Aegean), Gail Cooper (USA), Camilla Asplund Ingemark, Dominic Ingemark (Uppsala), Licia Masoni (Bologna).
See more details on the website of the summer school:
https://sites.google.com/view/mythos-as-mythus
The period of applications has started and the final deadline is 10 March 2023. Cuncti adeste!
Belief Narrative Network Online Lectures, 2021
Online presentation, 3 September 2021, as lecture 3 in the Belief Narrative Network Online Lectur... more Online presentation, 3 September 2021, as lecture 3 in the Belief Narrative Network Online Lectures series
This talk traces oral traditions centered on half-human monsters shared by European Americans in the Appalachian mountains from ca 1770 to 1970, beginning with tall tales of giants and Yahoos, continuing through children's bogeyman legends, and culminating in a cluster of tales centered on the mating of human males and apelike females.
Edge of Words Series, University of Edinburgh, 2013
Professor Carl Lindahl, co-founder of the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston (SKRH) project, e... more Professor Carl Lindahl, co-founder of the Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston (SKRH) project, explains the methods used by SKRH to help make survivors more active agents in their own recovery.
This talk was given as part of the University of Edinburgh's Edge of Words seminar series, July 2013.