Uncle Bud Long: The Birth Of A Kentucky Folk Legend

According to the scant historical records available, Uncle Bud Long, his daughter Janey, and her son Frankie lived near Clark's Landing, Kentucky, for about twenty years early in this century. Mr. Clarke has collected the tales of the Longs' strange ways from old-time residents of the community, both those who knew the Longs and those who inherited the stories by word of mouth. Here he skillfully weaves them into a loose narrative and, in addition, analyzes the ways in which the anecdotes have been transmuted in the process of retelling. This analysis of the stories of Uncle Bud reveals much about the delicate process by which the oral folk tradition grows and thrives. Though at first glance these fragmentary anecdotes hardly seem to constitute a legend, Mr. Clarke convincingly argues that from such humble roots ultimately grows much of what we think of as "literature." 9780813151694 0813151694 0 BOOK Social Science NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=WV2UoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Kenneth Clarke
• | Publisher: University Press Of Kentucky
• | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 88 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0813151694
• | ISBN-13: 9780813151694