Paul Bunyan,9780870135217

Paul Bunyan

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ISBN13: 9780870135217
ISBN10: 087013521X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-01
Publisher(s): Michigan State University Press
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Summary

Paul Bunyan is the giant of American folklore, so huge that several states claim him as their own-some say he was born in Michigan, others claim Minnesota, still others, Maine. Daniel Hoffman's Paul Bunyan shows that the hero's origins are more surprising still. More than another recounting of Paul Bunyan's adventures, this book is a classic of American folklore. First published in 1949, this new edition traces the clues of origin to turn-of-the-century logging camps, to the sparse record of actual folktales, and then to the ways these yarns were repeated, revised, simplified, or distorted.

Table of Contents

I. Three Paul Bunyans 1(10)
Who was Paul?
1(2)
Three Paul Bunyans
3(5)
The Traditions Mingle
8(3)
II. The Folk and their Tales 11(12)
What is a Folk?
12(2)
The Genesis of Folktales
14(4)
The Folktale as a Separate Genre
18(2)
A Note on Sources
20(3)
III. Tales from the Pine and the Panhandle 23(40)
The Lumberman's Life
23(4)
A Matter of Life or Death
27(4)
Down East and Backwoods Forebears
31(2)
Fabulous Natural History
33(4)
Victims of Nature, Not Economics
37(2)
Conquest of Nature
39(4)
``Paul's Cleverality''
43(5)
Contests of Wit
48(4)
The Comedy of Ugliness
52(1)
The Oral Style
53(6)
The Frontier and Its Heroes Decline Together
59(4)
IV. From the Sticks to the Slicks 63(64)
Popularization Defined
63(2)
The Spirit of the Times
65(8)
Paul Bunyan in 1914: W. B. Laughead's Genial Giant
73(10)
Paul in 1916: Miss Turney's Farmer
83(4)
Paul in 1924: Mrs. Shephard's Careless Document
87(7)
Paul in 1925: James Stevens' Leader-Hero
94(15)
A Fable for Critics
109(4)
Mr. Stevens Tries Again
113(3)
LumberJacks in the Nursery
116(7)
Mr. Felton's Potpourri
123(4)
V. Toward a National Literature 127(66)
The Search for an Epic
127(1)
Robert Frost: Individualism in Exile
128(4)
Sandburg and ``The People''
132(11)
Auden's American Demigod
143(10)
Louis Untermeyer: The Glorious Past
153(7)
What Does the Symbol Symbolize?
160(33)
Bibliography 193(10)
Motif-Index 203(6)
Name and Subject Index 209

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