"The T. W. Thompson Collection of Gypsy Folk Tales: An Edition with Commentary and Analytical Indexes"

Description

Ph.D. thesis consisting of Thomas William Thompson's folktales collected from English Gypsy Traveller communities between 1908 and 1924. The tales have been classified and arranged according to the Aarne-Thompson 'Index of Tale Types'. Chapters One, Two and Three contain an exposition of Thompson's methods of work, together with a discussion of the problems involved in the preparation of the thesis. The indexes comprise, in addition to an Index of Tale Types, analytical indexes of legend types, motifs, tale titles, manuscript notebooks, informants, and the occasions on which the tales were told. These are followed by a glossary of Anglo-Romani words in the texts of the tales. Volume Two is divided into three parts, each containing the texts themselves. Volume 1 (chapters 1-3 and indexes); Volume 2 (part 1), animal tales and ordinary folktales, (part 2) ordinary folktales continued, (part 3) jokes and anecdotes, formula tales, unclassified tales and migratory legends.

Metadata

Identifier mg3lhgm8
IRN 409902
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/1/006
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/mg3lhgm8
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
Creator(s) Clinch, Angela Jane
Date 1982
Size and Medium 999 bound typed leaves. 4 volumes.

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