| American Tall Tales
Sat, 06 Jan 96
Wller Hastings posted this list from the suggestions he gathered in CHILDLIT
and FOLKLORE listservs:
About a month ago I requested possible texts on American tall tales for
use with an NEH institute I am proposing for summer 1997. Here, belatedly,
is a compilation of the suggestions which I received:
(note: more titles will be posted once they are gathered -- fairrosa)
Collections:
Mary Pope Osborne, AMERICAN TALL TALES
Robert San Souci, LARGER THAN LIFE
Robert San Souci, CUT FROM THE SAME CLOTH
Paul Robert Walker, BIG MEN, BIG COUNTRY
Virginia Hamilton, HER STORIES
Richard Dorson: *Jonathan Draws the Long Bow*
Dorson, *Man and Beast in American Comic Legend*
Vance Randolph's *We Always Lie to Strangers*
James E. Myers, "The Great American Liar: a Treasury of Tall Tales"
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