English Language and Literature ETDs

Hector Lee

Publication Date

5-19-1947

Abstract

Until quite recently, folklore in the United States has been a study for scholars who were willing to work without encouragement or very much financial support. American anthropologists have applied their discipline to Indian lore and show bounteous returns; literary scholars and musicologists have collected and studied ballads in various parts of America and have added to our knowledge of what and how the people sing. More recently, various regions of our country have published collections -- mostly following the stimulus of the WPA -- and the result has been a nation-wide interest in the things people like to talk and sing and brag about when they are being non-scientific, non-literary, non-intellectual -- when they are being simply people.

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

Thomas Matthews Pearce

Second Committee Member

Robert E. Barton Allen

Third Committee Member

George Warren Arms

Fourth Committee Member

Frank Driver Reeve

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

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