The Syndergaard Sessions I: Ballads: Borders and Border-Crossings

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Kommission für Volksdichtung

Organizer Name

Richard Firth Green

Organizer Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Presider Name

Richard Firth Green

Paper Title 1

Bounded by Speech: The Definition of Topography in Ballad Romance

Presenter 1 Name

Andrew Richmond

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Paper Title 2

Tristel-tree and Bracken-bush: Imaginary Greenwoods in Border Ballads

Presenter 2 Name

Marybeth Ruether-Wu

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Cornell Univ.

Paper Title 3

A Game of Crows: Poe, Plagiarism, and the Ballad Tradition

Presenter 3 Name

Jennifer Wollock

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Texas A&M Univ.

Start Date

13-5-2017 10:00 AM

Session Location

Valley II LeFevre 201

Description

Two of the papers in this session discuss the geographical implications of traditional ballads recorded on the Scottish borders, and the third a transnational debate connecting Poe's Raven with traditional ballads studies in Europe.

Richard F. Green