Walled-Up Wife: A Casebook

By Alan Dundes

Book Overview

A casebook of interpretations of the ballad The Walled-Up Wife. Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power issues in the ballad, and Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble presents a structuralist interpretation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299150747
• ISBN13: 9780299150747
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"