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Ballads --- History and criticism --- -Folk ballads --- Lyric poetry --- Poetry --- Songs --- Vocal music --- Folk songs --- -History and criticism --- Folk poetry --- 20th century --- Ballads - History and criticism

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The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with the very features that characterize ballads... or narrative songs. These include an appearance of fragmentation; a wide range of cultural and social referents; complex, evocative symbolic language; and variation. The notable multiformity of meaning, text and tune is mirrored in scholarsh

Folklore --- Comparative literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Ballads - History and criticism. --- Ballads. --- Folk literature - History and criticism. --- Ballads --- -Folk literature --- -Oral literature --- Literature --- Folk ballads --- Lyric poetry --- Poetry --- Songs --- Vocal music --- Folk songs --- History and criticism --- -History and criticism --- Folk literature --- History and criticism.