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- Title: Folklore: An Emerging Discipline, Selected Essays of Herbert Halpert
- Author : Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
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Folklore: An Emerging Discipline, Selected Essays of Herbert Halpert. Edited by Martin Lovelace, Paul Smith, and J.D.A. Widdowson. St John's: Folklore and Language Publications, MUN, 2002, ISBN 0 88901 335 7. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I HAD the pleasure of reviewing Herbert Halpert's and J.D.A. Widdowson's Folktales of Newfoundland in this journal (Newfoundland Studies 13, 1 [Spring 1997], 93-97) declaring its two volumes to be "the best edition of a regional (or national, for that matter) corpus of folk-narrative that I have come across in almost fifty years of involvement in this field of study." More recently, I reviewed, also in laudatory terms (Newfoundland Studies 18, 2 [Fall 2002], 323-24), Little Jack and other Newfoundland Folktales, containing 50 stories selected from those two volumes, and edited by John Widdowson, with the intention of presenting "these stories in an accessible way to readers," quite a few of whom would be the storytellers themselves or their families and neighbours. Thus, many of the tales collected from the Newfoundland narrative tradition have found their way back into, and reinforced that living tradition.