Natascha Wurzbach, Natascha Wrzbach

The Rise of the English Street Ballad 1550 1650

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1981 study of the street ballad was the first to investigate a specific genre of popular literature which had previously been vastly neglected.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521177443
• ISBN-10: 0521177448
• Artikelnr.: 32305674

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: survey of research to date and delineation of study area
1. Literary and social conditions for the rise, distribution and textual structure of the street ballad
2. Preliminary investigation of the interrelation between street-ballad text and socio-cultural environment: description of textual structure
3. Procedures of the presenter and his relationship to his audience
4. Sub-genres of the street ballad
5. Pragmatic genre-definition of the street ballad and its cultural and historical position
6. Reputation of the street ballad: views of contemporary writers
Notes
Bibliography.