Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs

by Barre Toelken

"A major academic work that is also brilliantly, clearly, humanely,
and poetically written. It can be enjoyed not only by ballad and bawdry
scholars but by everyone who picks it up." -- Kenneth S. Goldstein,
University of Pennsylvania, former president of the American Folklore
Society
"Toelken's insights . . . are unique. His study broadens and deepens
scholarly appreciation of how folksong metaphors carry their own semantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252021347
• ISBN13: 9780252021343
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"