Index

Aarne-Thompson index, 54

accuracy, in personal narrative, 17; and credibility, 18

Abrahams, Roger D., 3, 14, 40, 41, 43, 119

Adams, Robert. M., quoted, 47

allusions, in personal narratives, 1; as concept, 8-9; in Clackamas myths, 41; and high-context situations, 41 ; and performance theory, 41; 41-42; 119

analytical codes, 84-117 passim

analytical focus, of the interpreter, 48

analytical gloss, chart, 48

anthropology, 7; and writing culture, 10

Arnold, Matthew, his touchstone theory, 4

attitudes, as nonverbalized folklore, 19

audience-interpreter, 46

auto-ethnography, 130n(chpt.3)11; see also self-ethnography

Babcock, Barbara A., 61

Balkan narrative study, see Georges, Robert

bar situation, 51, 52, 57

“Barber Shop, The” (story), 21; text, 126

Barthes, Roland, 4, 41, 48, 50

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 54

Bascom, William, his four functions, 21

Basso, Keith, 13

Bauman, Richard, 3, 34, 112, 119; quoted, 41; and the “yarn,” 14

Ben-Amos, Dan, 5, 13, 118, 119

Benedict, Ruth, 63-64

Bleich, David, 6, 46-47, 63, 72, 82

Brandes, Stanley, 77, 78

Brémond, Claude, 25, 69, 70, 105

Brethren religion, 85, 86, 103

Brown, Jim, 50, 58, 60

Brunvand, Jan, 34

Burns, Tom, 7

“Campfire Corner” column, 51, 53, 54, 56

canary, as symbol, 98-102

“Canary, or The Yellow Dress, The” (story), 46, 119; instructional text, 83-117; text, version #1, 126-127; text, version #2, 127-128; text, version #3, 128

Caso, the, and the personal narrative, 13

“Castles in Spain” (poem), 97, 101

Cawelti, John, 80

Chatman, Seymour, quoted, 33; Story and Discourse, 48

“Chicken Blood, Tiny Wires and the” (story), 25, 44, 57; text, 39-40

“Christmas Eve Drunk, The” (story), text, 15-16; and credibility issue, 18

Cioffi, Frank, 5

coda, 79

collective symbolism, 63

communal folklore, and private, 45

competence, of audience, 45-46, 47

complicating action, 89, 111

content (Rohstuff), 14

content-centered text, 30

context, in literary criticism, 3-4; generic, 4; biographical, 4; aesthetic, 4

contexting, 130n(chpt.3)5

contextualism, 129n(chpt. 1)1

contextualists, 2, 129n(chpt.l)8

contextualized interpretive texts, 44-45

contextualizing, 32-33

credibility, in personal narratives, 18

cultural codes, 41

cultural determinism, 35

culture, 132n(Epilogue)2

“damn,” use of, 103-104

deconstructionism, 1, 2, 5, 8

Dégh, Linda, 12, 57, 100

depression, see Great Depression

De Vault, Charles, 90-117 passim

dialogue, 94

discourse, 49; as analytical code, 84, 85, 88, 89, 91, 93, 95, 106, 107, 111

“dirty words,” use of, 57

documentary-instructional text, 30

Dolby, Charles, 21, 83

Dolby, Loretta, 21-23, 27, 83-117 passim; her wheel of folk groups, 36

Dolby, M. Gertrude (identified as grandmother), xi-xiii, 25, 26

Dorson, Richard M., 65, 96, 102, 118, and folklore in literature, 1

dramatic plot, essential feature, 16-17

dream, in personal narrative, 67-69

Dundes, Alan, 2, 6, 14, 19, 20, 29, 31, 34, 46, 48, 49, 75, 104, 118; quoted, 65

dynamic character, 22

embedded folklore, 118

emic and etic, 7, 13, 130n(chpt.3)10

enculturation, 23

Ervin-Tripp, Susan, 50

esoteric-exoteric factor, 36

ethnocentrism, 33

ethnography of speaking, 3, 53

evaluation, 56, 61, 63

expanded instructional text, 33

experience-near and experience-distant, 7

fabrication, 16

falsification, 18

Fine, Elizabeth, 3, 4, 30

Fine, Gary Alan, 29, 31, 32

“First Charge Account” (story), text, 27

Firth, Raymond, 20, 45, 63, 99

Fish, Stanley, 31, 63, 46-47

folk fallacies, 131n(chpt.4)12

folk groups, 23, and frames of reference, 33-37; eight categories of, 34, 35

folklore and literature, 1, 8

folklorized personal narrative, 131n(chpt4)7

Ford, Julienne, 119

formula, 131n(chpt.5)4; see also idiosyncratic formula

Fort Wayne, Indiana, 83

“found literature,” 4

frames of reference, 33

Freud, Sigmund, 38, 47

Freytag’s pyramid, 16

function (structural unit), 20

function, of personal narrative, 14, 21, 66, 130n(chpt.3)3

Geertz, Clifford, 7

genre, as concept, 7; conventional features of, 14; as literary strategy, 17

genre theory in folkoristics, 129n(chpt.2)2

Georges, Robert, 5, 15, 44

Glassie, Henry, 14; quoted, 20

Goffman, Erving, 40, 60

Graham, Joe, 13

Gray, Bennison, 5, 14, 79

Great Depression, 87, 108, 109

Guba, Egon, and naturalistic inquiry, 9

Haley, Jay, quoted, 33

Hall, Edward T., 41, 43

Hartman, Geoffrey, on Derrida, 8

Hastings, Michigan, 27

Helas, Paul, 13

Hendricks, William O., 61

Henningsen, Gustav, 62; quoted, 53-54

Hernadi, Paul, 4

high-context and low-context, 41

Hirsch, E. D., Jr., 6, 8

historic-geographic method, 29

Holland, Norman, 6

Honko, Lauri, 19, 24

Hufford, David, 19

Huntington Herald-Press, 51

Huntington, Indiana, 15-16, 21, 37, 38, 50, 55, 83

Hymes, Dell, 3

I (the pronoun), as character, 21-23, 95

Ich-Bericht form, 15, 130n(chpt.2)5; as essential feature, 19

identity, of teller, xii

idioculture, 45, 130n(chpt.3)9

idiosyncratic formula, 94, 131n(chpt.5)4

informed listener, 63

informed reader, 46

instructional text, 44-49, 50

integrity, as value in “Spelling Bee,” 26

intentional fallacy, 5-6, 31

International Congress for Folk Narrative Research, 12

interpretation, 45-49

interpretive context, 29, 30, 32-44, 130n(chpt.3)2

intertextuality, 80

intimacy, 42; and personal narratives, xii; as motivation, 38

intimate symbolism, 107

intranarrative symbolism, 65

Jacobs, Melville, quoted, 41

Jansen, William Hugh, 36

jokes, 130n(chpt.2)9

joking relationship, 86

King of the Cats Is Dead, The (ATI 13A), 54

Kohinoor (diamond), 53

Kohut, Heinz, Geertz’s use of, 7

Koo-Nar, king of the frogs, 52-53

“Koo-Nar, King of the Rats” (story), 45, 119; instructional text, 50-82; text, version #1, 123-124; text, version #2, 124-126

Labov, William, 21, 55

latent function, 82

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 20, 105

life-history, and personal narrative, 13

Lincoln, Yvonne, 9

listener, responsibility of, xii; and oral literary criticism, 6

literary folkoristics, 1, 8, 10, 120

lying, 54-55, 131n(chpt4)7

Lyons, Mary, 85-117 passim

Manchester College, 83-117 passim

Manchester experience, 85-86

masculinity, theme of, 58-59

McDowell, John H., 4

memorates, 13, 19, 23

metanarration, 42, 49, 61, 73, 79, 115

methodology, for interpretation, 46

motif, 65, 93, 101, 107

Muller’s remarkable quandary, 4

narrational value endorsement, 104

naturalistic inquiry, and literary folkloristics, 9-10

naturalistic paradigm, 48

new ethnography, 46

nonverbalized folklore, defined, 19

North Manchester, Indiana, 83

Oakley, Illinois, 36, 83

oikotype, 129n(chpt.2)4

operationalized research, 29

oral literary criticism, 6, 45, 46

orientation section, 87

origins fallacy, 31

Oring, Elliott, 20-21

Pelto, Pertti, 46, quoted, 29

performance theory, 1, 3, 43-44

performance-centered text, 30

personal narratives, defined, xi-xii, 12; xii, xiii, 12-28; and intimacy, 37-43; 44, 45, 66, 118-120; research on, 129n(chpt.2)1

personal symbolism, 63

personalore (private folklore), 49, 54, 55; defined, 45; as analytical code, 85, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 95, 106, 107, 111

Polanyi, Livia, 46

poststructuralism, 20

power of performance, 43-44

Pratt, Mary Louise, 71, 96

private folklore, defined, 45

Propp, Vladimir, 19, 93-94, 96

proverbs, in personal narratives, 76-77

psychoanalytic theory, 29-31

psychological privacy of informants, 48

rat, as symbol, 63-64, 64-69

reader-response criticism, 1, 6, 47, 63

reception theory, 2, 5; see also reader-response criticism

“Red Velvet Suit, The” (story), 26, 57, text, 121-123

reflexivity, 42, 79

rhetorical theory, 2, 3

rite of passage, 50

Robinson, John A., 21, 56; quoted, 91

Rokeach, Milton, 19

Schachter, Stanley, 43-4

Scheiber, Larry, 15, 16-17, 25, 38, 43, 44, 50-82 passim; his wheel chart of folk groups, 37

self-ethnography, 130n(chpt.3)11

semiotics, 2, 14

Shenefield, Carol (Dolby), 15-16, 52-79 passim, 83

“Spelling Bee, The” (story), xi, xii, 25

Stahl, Sandra Dolby, 6, 12, 25, 70

Stewart, Polly, 18

Stewart, Susan, 72

structuralism, 20, 130n(chpt.2)10

structure, 14, 15-17, 49, 65, 69-70, 72, 112-113; and theme, 24-28; as analytical code, 89, 90, 93, 94, 107, 109, 111

style, 5, 14, 49, 79-81, 129n(chpt.2)4; as analytical code, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 93, 95, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111

subjectivity, 46-47, 118

symbol, 49; as analytical code, 93, 106, 107

symbolic equivalents, 20

symbolism, collective, personal, and intranarrative, 63

tellability, 73, 131n(chpt.4)10

terminology, in literary folkloristics, 48-49

text vs. context, 2-6, 46

textuality, 71

themes, 26, 49, 55, 81-82, 111-114

thematic types, personal narrative, 24-28

Toelken, Barre, the “twin laws,” 9

tradition, 9-10, 118-120

tutor text, see instructional text

type, 49; as analytical code, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 106, 107, 108, 109, 111

values, as nonverbalized folklore, 19

verbal context, 84

Wabash Magnetics (Kearney), 50, 55, 58

“Wide-Mouth Frog, The” (joke), 31-32

Wires, Ken (Tiny), 25, 39-40, 41

Wise, Gene, 48

“Yellow Dress, The,” see “Canary”