EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH BALLAD COLLECTORS AND THE ORAL TRADITION: SEEKING DURABILITY AND ACKNOWLEDGING TRANSIENCE
In contrast to their English predecessors, who had compiled their collections largely from printed texts and manuscripts, the Scottish ballad collectors of the early nineteenth derived their material principally from oral tradition. The introductory material and commentary in their published collect...
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Bucharest University Press
2022-02-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/James-Christian-Brown_2_2009.pdf |