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December Is My Favorite Holiday is a story of family traditions that children look forward to in preparation for Christmas. So even though all the rituals lead up to one big day, Christmas, the real fun is in the family time we celebrate throughout the month of December: tree lightings, family and friend gatherings, gift giving, as well as some ethnic traditions (Latin and European) and the author's local Chicago traditions such as the Walnut ...

December Is My Favorite Holiday is a story of family traditions that children look forward to in preparation for Christmas. So even though all the rituals lead up to one big day, Christmas, the real fun is in the family time we celebrate throughout the month of December: tree lightings, family and friend gatherings, gift giving, as well as some ethnic traditions (Latin and European) and the author's local Chicago traditions such as the Walnut ...

This is ballad scholarship at its best."-Wilhelm F. Nicolaisen William Motherwell (l797-l835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern , in l827. His views on authenticity, editorial practice, the nature of oral transmission, and the importance of sung performance--acquired through field collecting--anticipate much later scholarly disco...

Mary Ellen Brown is a professor emerita of folklore, women's studies, and English (adjunct) at Indiana University Bloomington. Her previous publications include William Motherwell's Cultural Politics, 1797–1835 and Burns and Tradition.

In this book an international team of contributors examines critically the relationship between television and women's culture. Although they recognize that television frequently distorts and oppresses women's experience, the authors avoid a simplistic manipulative view of the media. Instead they show how and why such different genres as game shows, police fiction and soap opera offer women opportunities for negotiation of their own meanings a...

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This work is an award winning compendium of authors, concepts, motifs, characters, themes, works, and movements associated with folklore and literature from around the world. Long before the written word existed, humans expressed themselves by telling stories. Handed down through centuries, these stories were woven into the tapestry of everyday life. For close to three centuries, folklore has inspired adaptations to film, operas, ballets, shor...