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0.44 Marcia Gaudet, Miss Jane and Personal Experience Narrative: Ernest Gaines' "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman", Western Folklore, 1992.
0.39 Janet Wall Hendricks, Manipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and Event among the Shuar, Journal of Folklore Research, 1990.
0.37 , Addendum: The Personal Narrative as Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1977.
0.37 Kevin I. Eyster, The Personal Narrative in Fiction: Faulkner's "The Reivers", Western Folklore, 1992.
0.37 Otto Blehr, A Hypothesis concerning the Relationship between "Verifiable" and "Unverifiable" Folk-Belief Stories in the Context of Storytelling, The Journal of American Folklore, 1978.
0.34 Donald Braid, Personal Narrative and Experiential Meaning, The Journal of American Folklore, 1996.
0.34 Jennifer Eastman Attebery, Storytelling Style in the Personal Narratives of Homer Spriggs, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1977.
0.34 William M. Clements, Personal Narrative the Interview Context and the Question of Tradition, Western Folklore, 1980.
0.32 Margaret K. Brady, Narrative Competence: A Navajo Example of Peer Group Evaluation, The Journal of American Folklore, 1980.
0.31 Sandra K. D. Stahl, The Personal Narrative as Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1977.
0.30 Tom Mould, The Paradox of Traditionalization: Negotiating the Past in Choctaw Prophetic Discourse, Journal of Folklore Research, 2005.
0.30 Kay Stone, Social Identity in Organized Storytelling, Western Folklore, 1997.
0.29 Gary R. Butler, Indexicality Authority and Communication in Traditional Narrative Discourse, The Journal of American Folklore, 1992.
0.28 Russell Frank, Folklore in a Hurry: The Community Experience Narrative in Newspaper Coverage of the Loma Prieta Earthquake, The Journal of American Folklore, 2003.
0.28 Brian W. Sturm, The "Storylistening" Trance Experience, The Journal of American Folklore, 2000.
0.28 John A. Robinson, Personal Narratives Reconsidered, The Journal of American Folklore, 1981.
0.28 John H. McDowell, Beyond Iconicity: Ostension in Kamsá Mythic Narrative, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1982.
0.28 Chad Ryan Thomas, Digression and Insertion in a Belizean Folktale, The Journal of American Folklore, 2000.
0.27 Katharine Young, Indirection in Storytelling, Western Folklore, 1978.
0.27 Linda Dégh Andrew Vázsonyi, The Memorate and the Proto-Memorate, The Journal of American Folklore, 1974.
0.27 Gillian Bennett, Narrative as Expository Discourse, The Journal of American Folklore, 1986.
0.27 Susan Kalc̆ik, " Like Ann's Gynecologist or the Time I Was Almost Raped": Personal Narratives in Women's Rap Groups, The Journal of American Folklore, 1975.
0.25 Jeff Todd Titon, The Life Story, The Journal of American Folklore, 1980.
0.24 C. W. Sullivan_ III, Folklore and Fantastic Literature, Western Folklore, 2001.
0.24 Robert A. Georges, Do Narrators Really Digress? A Reconsideration of "Audience Asides" in Narrating, Western Folklore, 1981.
0.24 Neil R. Grobman, The Tall Tale Telling Events in Melville's "Moby-Dick", Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1975.
0.23 Margaret Verble, Emotional Distance in the Narration of Legends, The Journal of American Folklore, 1975.
0.23 Susan Stewart, The Epistemology of the Horror Story, The Journal of American Folklore, 1982.
0.23 Barbara Allen, The Personal Point of View in Orally Communicated History, Western Folklore, 1979.
0.23 Bill Ellis, "Ralph and Rudy": The Audience's Role in Recreating a Camp Legend, Western Folklore, 1982.
0.23 Ilana Harlow, Unravelling Stories: Exploring the Juncture of Ghost Story and Local Tragedy, Journal of Folklore Research, 1993.
0.23 Michael Edward Melody, Maka's Story: A Study of a Lakota Cosmogony, The Journal of American Folklore, 1977.
0.23 Eleanor Wachs, The Crime-Victim Narrative as a Folkloric Genre, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1982.
0.23 Sandra K. Dolby-Stahl, A Literary Folkloristic Methodology for the Study of Meaning in Personal Narrative, Journal of Folklore Research, 1985.
0.22 William R. Seaburg, An Alsea Personal Narrative and Its Historical Context, Western Folklore, 1992.
0.22 Larry Danielson, Toward the Analysis of Vernacular Texts: The Supernatural Narrative in Oral and Popular Print Sources, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1979.
0.22 Tom Mould, Prophetic Riddling: A Dialogue of Genres in Choctaw Performance, The Journal of American Folklore, 2002.
0.21 Ervin Beck, Telling the Tale in Belize, The Journal of American Folklore, 1980.
0.21 Elliott Oring, Legendry and the Rhetoric of Truth, The Journal of American Folklore, 2008.
0.21 Kenneth D. Pimple, Personal Narrative Melville's "The Confidence-Man" and the Problem of Deception, Western Folklore, 1992.
0.20 Diane Tye, Local Character Anecdotes: A Nova Scotia Case Study, Western Folklore, 1989.
0.20 Robert A. Georges, Feedback and Response in Storytelling, Western Folklore, 1979.
0.20 Robert A. Georges, Toward an Understanding of Storytelling Events, The Journal of American Folklore, 1969.
0.20 Herminia Q. Meñez, The Performance of Folk Narrative in Filipino Communities in California, Western Folklore, 1977.
0.20 Owen Jordahl, Folkloristic Influences upon Rølvaag's Youth, Western Folklore, 1975.
0.20 Danielle M. Roemer, The Personal Narrative and Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye", Western Folklore, 1992.
0.20 Gillian Bennett, "Belief Stories": The Forgotten Genre, Western Folklore, 1989.
0.19 Elliott Oring, Generating Lives: The Construction of an Autobiography, Journal of Folklore Research, 1987.
0.19 Marcia Gaudet, Telling It Slant: Personal Narrative Tall Tales and the Reality of Leprosy, Western Folklore, 1990.
0.19 Regina Bendix, Reflections on Earthquake Narratives, Western Folklore, 1990.
0.18 Rachel I. Fretz, Answering in Song: Listener Responses in Yishima Performances, Western Folklore, 1995.
0.18 Richard Bauman, Ed Bell Texas Storyteller: The Framing and Reframing of Life Experience, Journal of Folklore Research, 1987.
0.18 İlhan Başgöz, Digression in Oral Narrative: A Case Study of Individual Remarks by Turkish Romance Tellers, The Journal of American Folklore, 1986.
0.18 Donald Ward, On the Genre Morphology of Legendry: Belief Story versus Belief Legend, Western Folklore, 1991.
0.18 Bill Ellis, The Camp Mock-Ordeal Theater as Life, The Journal of American Folklore, 1981.
0.18 Sandra Dolby-Stahl, Literary Objectives: Hurston's Use of Personal Narrative in "Mules and Men", Western Folklore, 1992.
0.18 Barre Toelken, The Yellowman Tapes 1966-1997. The Journal of American Folklore, 1998,
0.18 Isidore Okpewho, Oral Tradition: Do Storytellers Lie?, Journal of Folklore Research, 2003.
0.18 Jane Masi Hall, Homer Spriggs: Chronicler of Brummetts Creek, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1977.
0.18 Robert A. Georges, Timeliness and Appropriateness in Personal Experience Narrating, Western Folklore, 1987.
0.17 Harold Scheub, Fixed and Nonfixed Symbols in Xhosa and Zulu Oral Narrative Traditions, The Journal of American Folklore, 1972.
0.17 Sandra K. D. Stahl Elaine Jahner Barbara Babcock Barre Toelken Dell Hymes, Comments: [Scarface vs Scar-Face: The Problem of Versions], Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1981.
0.17 Elaine J. Lawless, Weaving Narrative Texts: The Artistry of Women's Sermons, Journal of Folklore Research, 1997.
0.17 Robert A. Georges, The Concept of "Repertoire" in Folkloristics, Western Folklore, 1994.
0.17 Merry Weed, Märchen and Legend Techniques of Narration in Two "Tales" of Isak Dinesen, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1978.
0.17 B. Cassidy, The Boy with the Iron Head, California Folklore Quarterly, 1944.
0.17 Dee L. McEntire Dee L. McEntire, Erotic Storytelling: Sexual Experience and Fantasy Letters in Forum Magazine, Western Folklore, 1992.
0.16 Heather Bohannan, Quest-tioning Tradition: Spiritual Transformation Images in Women's Narratives and "Housekeeping" by Marilynne Robinson, Western Folklore, 1992.
0.16 Elaine J. Lawless, Women's Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography as Feminist and Emergent, Journal of Folklore Research, 1991.
0.16 Jane Muncy Fugate, Two Tellings of "Merrywise": 1949 and 2000. Journal of Folklore Research, 2001,
0.16 Coppélie Cocq, Polyphony in Sámi Narratives, Journal of Folklore Research, 2008.
0.16 Steven J. Zeitlin, "An Alchemy of Mind": The Family Courtship Story, Western Folklore, 1980.
0.16 Donald Braid, "Doing Good Physics": Narrative and Innovation in Research, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006.
0.15 Suzanne P. Mac Aulay, Diaspora by Degree: Narrative and Performance in Interviews of Expatriates from Wanganui New Zealand, The Journal of American Folklore, 2004.
0.15 Timothy R. Tangherlini, "It Happened Not Too Far from Here": A Survey of Legend Theory and Characterization, Western Folklore, 1990.
0.15 Torunn Selberg, Faith Healing and Miracles: Narratives about Folk Medicine, Journal of Folklore Research, 1995.
0.15 Barre Toelken, Beauty Behind Me; Beauty Before (AFS Address), The Journal of American Folklore, 2004.
0.15 Mark E. Workman, Narratable and Unnarratable Lives, Western Folklore, 1992.
0.15 Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Authoring Lives, Journal of Folklore Research, 1989.
0.15 Stuart H. Blackburn, Oral Performance: Narrative and Ritual in a Tamil Tradition, The Journal of American Folklore, 1981.
0.15 Donald Soker, The Taotaomona Stories of Guam, Western Folklore, 1972.
0.15 Wendy Wickwire, Stories from the Margins: Toward a More Inclusive British Columbia Historiography, The Journal of American Folklore, 2005.
0.15 Katharine Young, The Notion of Context, Western Folklore, 1985.
0.15 Janet Langlois, Belle Gunness the Lady Bluebeard: Community Legend as Metaphor, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1978.
0.15 Elizabeth Tucker, The Dramatization of Children's Narratives, Western Folklore, 1980.
0.14 William A. Wilson, The 1990 Archer Taylor Memorial Lecture Personal Narratives: The Family Novel, Western Folklore, 1991.
0.14 Gerald E. Warshaver, Bushwhacked by Reality: The Significance of Stephen Crane's Interest in Rural Folklore, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1982.
0.14 William M. Clements, The Pentecostal Sagaman, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1980.
0.14 William J. Dewan, "A Saucerful of Secrets": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of UFO Experiences, The Journal of American Folklore, 2006.
0.14 Robert D. Bethke, Storytelling at an Adirondack Inn, Western Folklore, 1976.
0.14 Dennis Tedlock, On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative, The Journal of American Folklore, 1971.
0.14 William M. Clements, The "Man-of-Words" in Masontown Pennsylvania: Two Approaches to Verbal Performance, Western Folklore, 1989.
0.13 Esther Schely-Newman, The Woman Who Was Shot: A Communal Tale, The Journal of American Folklore, 1993.
0.13 Steven Swann Jones, Folklore in James's Fiction: Turning the Screw, Western Folklore, 2001.
0.13 John Charlot, Some Uses of Chant in Samoan Prose, The Journal of American Folklore, 1988.
0.13 Vivian Labrie Nicolas Finsey, Cartography and Graphic Analysis of the Physical Universe in the Odyssey Story, Journal of Folklore Research, 1983.
0.13 Carl Lindahl, Sounding a Shy Tradition: Oral and Written Styles of American Mountain Märchen, Journal of Folklore Research, 2001.
0.13 William Bascom, The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives, The Journal of American Folklore, 1965.
0.13 Eugene Eoyang, The Oral Element in Chinese Fiction: Notes toward a Phenomenology, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1976.
0.13 Clodagh Brennan Harvey, Some Irish Women Storytellers and Reflections on the Role of Women in the Storytelling Tradition, Western Folklore, 1989.
0.13 Mary Ellen B. Lewis, Burns' "Tale o'Truth": A Legend in Literature, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1976.
0.12 Linda Dégh, The Approach to Worldview in Folk Narrative Study, Western Folklore, 1994.
0.12 Brunhilde Biebuyck-Goetz, "This Is the Dyin' Truth": Mechanisms of Lying, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1977.
0.12 Karl Kroeber, Rejoinder: [Scarface vs Scar-Face: The Problem of Versions], Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1981.
0.12 David Poveda, Literature Socialization in a Kindergarten Classroom, Journal of Folklore Research, 2003.
0.12 Heda Jason, Concerning the "Historical" and the "Local" Legends and Their Relatives, The Journal of American Folklore, 1971.
0.12 Jane H. Hill, Weeping as a Meta-Signal in a Mexicano Woman's Narrative, Journal of Folklore Research, 1990.
0.12 George W. Rich, New Tales from Old: Two Washoe Examples, Western Folklore, 1973.
0.12 Dan Ben-Amos, The Elusive Audience of Benin Narrators, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1972.
0.12 Richard M. Dorson, The Legend of Yoho Cove, Western Folklore, 1959.
0.12 Sharon R. Sherman, "Where's Your Camera?": Dorson's Contribution to Visual and Nonverbal Studies in Folklore, Western Folklore, 1989.
0.12 Ilhan Baṣh=utriöz, Turkish Folk Stories about the Lives of Minstrels, The Journal of American Folklore, 1952.
0.12 William A. Wilson, Folklore a Mirror for What? Reflections of a Mormon Folklorist, Western Folklore, 1995.
0.11 Gary Alan Fine, Community and Boundary: Personal Experience Stories of Mushroom Collectors, Journal of Folklore Research, 1987.
0.11 Robert A. Georges, The Kaleidoscopic Model of Narrating: A Characterization and a Critique, The Journal of American Folklore, 1979.
0.11 Martin Lovelace, Motifing "Folktales of Newfoundland", Journal of Folklore Research, 1997.
0.11 Cornelia Cody, "Only in New York": The New York City Personal Experience Narrative, Journal of Folklore Research, 2005.
0.11 Joseph J. Arpad, The Fight Story: Quotation and Originality in Native American Humor, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1973.
0.11 Jacqueline Simpson, Urban Legends in The Pickwick Papers, The Journal of American Folklore, 1983.
0.11 Daniel J. Gelo, Recalling the Past in Creating the Present: Topographic References in Comanche Narrative, Western Folklore, 1994.
0.11 Kay L. Cothran, Talking Trash in the Okefenokee Swamp Rim Georgia, The Journal of American Folklore, 1974.
0.11 Carl Lindahl, Introduction: Representing and Recovering the British- and Irish-American Märchen, Journal of Folklore Research, 2001.
0.11 Karen M. Duffy, Narrator Style and Purpose in a Story's Crafting: Two Tellings of a Tale from Acoma, Journal of Folklore Research, 1995.
0.11 Anthony K. Webster, Running Again Roasting Again Touching Again: On Repetition Heightened Affective Expressivity and the Utility of the Notion of Linguaculture in Navajo and Beyond, The Journal of American Folklore, 2008.
0.11 Mahmoud Omidsalar, Storytellers in Classical Persian Texts, The Journal of American Folklore, 1984.
0.11 Lynn Price Ager, Storyknifing: An Alaskan Eskimo Girl's Game, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1975.
0.11 Elaine J. Lawless, "The Night I Got the Holy Ghost": Holy Ghost Narratives and the Pentecostal Conversion Process, Western Folklore, 1988.
0.11 W. F. H. Nicolaisen, Names and Narratives, The Journal of American Folklore, 1984.
0.11 Susan L. Scheiberg, A Folklorist in the Family: On the Process of Fieldwork among Intimates, Western Folklore, 1990.
0.11 Patrick B. Mullen, The Relationship of Legend and Folk Belief, The Journal of American Folklore, 1971.
0.11 Donald Cosentino, Image Parody and Debate: Levels in Mende Narrative Performance, Journal of Folklore Research, 1988.
0.11 Ethel Barnett de Vito, Moment of Truth, The Journal of American Folklore, 1956.
0.10 Jesse W. Harris, Substituting for the off Ox, The Journal of American Folklore, 1947.
0.10 Edward Hirsch, Coming out into the Light: W B Yeats's "The Celtic Twilight" (1893 1902), Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1981.
0.10 Lori Ann Garner, Representations of Speech in the WPA Slave Narratives of Florida and the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Western Folklore, 2000.
0.10 Alexander F. Chamberlain, Cree and Ojibwa Literary Terms, The Journal of American Folklore, 1906.
0.10 Gary R. Butler, Personal Experience Narratives and the Social Construction of Meaning in Confrontational Discourse, The Journal of American Folklore, 2002.
0.10 Masséande Chami Alaoui, Genres of Comoran Folklore, Journal of Folklore Research, 1997.
0.10 Simon J. Bronner, Structural and Stylistic Relations of Oral and Literary Humor: An Analysis of Leo Rosten's H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N Stories, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1982.
0.10 Amy Shumam Carol Bohmer, Representing Trauma: Political Asylum Narrative, The Journal of American Folklore, 2004.
0.10 Roger Abrahams, [The Negro Stereotype: Negro Folklore and the Riots]: Reply to Prepared Comments, The Journal of American Folklore, 1970.
0.10 Inna Golovakha-Hicks, Demonology in Contemporary Ukraine: Folklore or "Postfolklore"?, Journal of Folklore Research, 2006.
0.10 Robert A. Schwegler, Oral Tradition and Print: Domestic Performance in Renaissance England, The Journal of American Folklore, 1980.
0.10 Ellen B. Basso, Introduction: Discourse as an Integrating Concept in Anthropology and Folklore Research, Journal of Folklore Research, 1990.
0.10 David E. Bynum, Oral Evidence and the Historian: Problems and Methods, Journal of the Folklore Institute, 1971.