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Tables of Contents for Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Marchen
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
viii
A Tale of Verbal Economy: ``Stiff Dick''
1
6
Samuel Harmon
Introduction: Representing and Recovering the British-and Irish-American Marchen
7
32
Carl Lindahl
Two Tellings of ``Merrywise'': 1949 and 2000
39
16
Jane Muncy Fugate
Two Versions of ``Rawhead and Bloodybones'' from the Farmer-Muncy Family
55
13
Glen Muncy Anderson
Jane Muncy Fugate
Sounding a Shy Tradition: Oral and Written Styles of American Mountain Marchen
68
31
Carl Lindahl
Two Transcriptions of ``Jack and the Bull,'' by Polly Johnson
99
7
James Taylor Adams
Richard Chase
Storybook Style: ``Jack and the Green Man''
106
5
Louise Fontaine Mann
Is Old Jack Really Richard Chase?
111
28
Charles L. Perdue Jr.
A Model of Appropriate Behavior? ``The Ship That Sailed on Land and Water''
139
10
Alice Lannon
Jack and His Masters: Real Worlds and Tale Worlds in Newfoundland Folktales
149
22
Martin Lovelace
In Memoriam: Herbert Halpert
171
4
Gerald Thomas
Abstracts
175
2
Contributors
177