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The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal

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May 1993, no. 150

The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal

OUP, $49.95 hb

The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal

by
May 1993, no. 150

I have had a haunted week reviewing the The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore; haunted by a host of inadequately credited or totally omitted characters and folklore subjects clamouring for their status and value to be recognised. Thus, in that vast penumbra of lost souls, the plaintive cries of characters such as Ginger Meggs, the Magic Pudding, and the Banksia Men, Rolf Harris and Barry Humphries, together with subjects such as Strine, Rhyming Talk, Hanging Rock, Ghosts, and Oral History, have begged for their recognition! And swelling their ranks are those who only got a toehold in the door, so cursory is their mention: Dad and Dave, Joseph Jacobs, Marion Sinclair, Clancy of the Overflow, the Man from Snowy River, et al.

Robert Holden reviews 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore' by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal

The Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore

by Gwenda Beed Davey and Graham Seal

OUP, $49.95 hb

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