David Atkinson
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The depth of Atkinson’s research is impressive and his conclusions will provide ballad scholars with much food for thought. The author quite elegantly makes the case for an interacti on between writt en and oral transmission of ballads for over half a millennium, eff ecti vely challenging many of the received tropes of ballad studies. —James Revell Carr
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The depth of Atkinson’s research is impressive and his conclusions will provide ballad scholars with much food for thought. The author quite elegantly makes the case for an interacti on between writt en and oral transmission of ballads for over half a millennium, eff ecti vely challenging many of the received tropes of ballad studies. —James Revell Carr
Key concepts: Ballad, The Imaginary, History, Literature, Art, Sociology, Linguistics, Psychology