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Title: THE WALLED-UP WIFE
A CASEBOOK
By: Alan Dundes (Editor)
Format: Paperback

List price: £19.95


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ISBN 10: 0299150747
ISBN 13: 9780299150747
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Pub. date: 15 October, 1996
Pages: 224
Language: English, Multiple languages
Description: A casebook of interpretations of the ballad "The Walled-Up Wife". Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power issues in the ballad, and Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble presents a structuralist interpretation.
Synopsis: A casebook of interpretations of the ballad The Walled-Up Wife. Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power issues in the ballad, and Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble presents a structuralist interpretation.
Illustrations: 1 musical example
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Returns: Returnable
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