Francis Utley
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American folklorist
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Francis Utley's Degrees
- PhD Folklore University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Folklore University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francis Lee Utley was a folklorist, linguist, medievalist, scholar of onomastics and literature, educator, and author. Life and career Born and raised in Watertown, Wisconsin, Utley attended the University of Wisconsin, from which he graduated with honors in 1929. He did his graduate literary studies at Harvard, earning the M.A. in 1934 and the Ph.D. in 1936. At Harvard, he came under the influence of George Lyman Kittredge in English who encouraged Utley's study of folklore. In 1936, he married Ruth Alice Scott and they had three children: Philip Lee, Andrew Scott, and Jean Marie.
Francis Utley's Published Works
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- The Anatomy of Envy: A Study in Symbolic Behavior [and Comments and Reply] (1972) (405)
- A Preface to Chaucer (1964) (120)
- Folk Literature: An Operational Definition (1961) (25)
- The Narreme in the Medieval Romance Epic: An Introduction to Narrative Structures (1971) (20)
- The Legend of Noah: Renaissance Rationalism in Art, Science, and Letters. (1950) (20)
- Ethnographic Semantics: A Preliminary Survey [and Comments and Replies] (1966) (19)
- Medieval literature and folklore studies;: Essays in honor of Francis Lee Utley (1972) (19)
- Chaucer and the Shape of Creation: The Aesthetic Possibilities of Inorganic Structure (1969) (13)
- The crooked rib : an analytical index to the argument about women in English and Scots literature to the end of the the year 1568 (1945) (13)
- Studies in Biblical and Jewish folklore (1961) (11)
- The One Hundred and Three Names of Noah's Wife (1941) (10)
- The Crooked Rib. (1945) (9)
- Bear, man, and God : eight approaches to William Faulkner's "The bear" (1971) (9)
- The Bible of the Folk (1945) (7)
- The Migration of Folktales: Four Channels to the Americas [and Comments and Reply] (1974) (7)
- The Linguistic Component of Onomastics (1963) (6)
- The Infernos of Lucretius and of Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1958) (6)
- The Choristers' Lament (1946) (5)
- The Celestial Bear Comes down to Earth (1948) (5)
- The forward movement of the fourteenth century (1961) (5)
- Folklore Research Center Studies (1972) (4)
- The Palmerin Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (1948) (4)
- Noah’s Ham and Jansen Enikel (1941) (4)
- Two Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Poems (1942) (4)
- The Study of Folk Literature: Its Scope and Use (1958) (4)
- Thoreau and Columella: A Study in Reading Habits (1938) (3)
- The Layman's Complaint and the Friar's Answer (1945) (3)
- A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500. Volume 5. XII: Dramatic Pieces@@@A Manual of the Writings in Middle English 1050-1500. Volume 5. XIII: Poems Dealing with Contemporary Conditions (1979) (3)
- The Prose Salomon and Saturn and the Tree Called Chy (1957) (3)
- Philemon, Lot, and Lycaon (1947) (3)
- The Urban and the Rural Jest (With an Excursus on the Shaggy Dog) (1969) (2)
- GENERAL: Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists. Vols. One and Two. Richard M. Dorson, ed (1970) (2)
- Bear, man, & God : seven approaches to William Faulkner's The bear (1964) (2)
- An Early Latin Debate of the Body and Soul: Preserved in MS Royal 7 A III in the British Museum (1941) (2)
- Tales of Alexander the Macedonian. A Medieval Hebrew Manuscript and Translation with a Literary and Historical Commentary (1973) (2)
- The Boundaries of Language and Rhetoric: The English Curriculum (1968) (2)
- Boccaccio, Chaucer and the International Popular Tale (1974) (2)
- Structural Linguistics and the Literary Critic (1960) (2)
- Onomastic Variety in the High Sierra (1972) (1)
- Tales of Sendebar. Mishle Sindbad. An Edition and Translation of the Hebrew Version of the Seven Sages Based on Unpublished Manuscripts (1969) (1)
- The Academic Status of Folklore in the United States (1970) (1)
- Design in Chaucer's Troilus. Sanford B. Meech (1960) (1)
- Howells' New York City Ballad Seller (1957) (1)
- A Dictionary of Words and Idioms Associated with Judas Iscariot: A Compilation Based Mainly on Material Found in the Germanic Languages (1944) (1)
- When Nettles in Winter Bring Forth Roses Red (1945) (1)
- Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic, Mediaeval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha and Samaritan Archaeology (1972) (1)
- Three Kinds of Honesty (1953) (1)
- The Folktale: Life History vs. Structuralism (1978) (1)
- Scene-division in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (1961) (1)
- Conflict and Promise in Folklore (1952) (1)
- Language and Politics (1950) (1)
- "Mannyssh Wood"--Merchant's Tale (iv) 1530-1536 (1938) (0)
- Introduction to Medieval Literature Chiefly in England: A Reading List and Bibliography (1950) (0)
- Folktale, Folkteller, and Folk Milieu (1966) (0)
- From the Dinnsenchas to Proust: The Folklore of Placenames in Literature (1968) (0)
- American Balladry from British Broadsides (1958) (0)
- People Walking Among Stockpens (0)
- Frederic C. Tubach, Index Exemplorum: A Handbook of Medieval Religious Tales . (FF Communications, 204.) Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1969. Pp. 530. Finnmarks 55. (1972) (0)
- Man in Brigade Uniform (0)
- The Names of the Knights of the Round Table (1975) (0)
- The Play Called Corpus Christi (1969) (0)
- An Unrationed Meal of Crow (1945) (0)
- The Last of the Miller's Head? (1941) (0)
- Discussion Groups Wednesday, 2:00–3:30 p.m. (1954) (0)
- COMMITTEES ON GRADUATE STUDENTS, AN ANSWER. (1967) (0)
- Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England, Volume 4: Ballads 250-295 (1965) (0)
- Jaiaca, The City of Sunrise (1957) (0)
- The Equine Subconscious in Ireland (1964) (0)
- Hog Crawl Creek Again (1973) (0)
- Reynard the Fox: A Study of the Fox in Medieval English Art. Kenneth Varty (1969) (0)
- Wyatt as a Scottish Poet (1945) (0)
- W. F. Bryan and Germaine Dempster, edd., Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1941. Pp. xvi, 765. $10.00. (1942) (0)
- A Role of Folk Life Study in the United States (1970) (0)
- How Judicare Came into the Creed (1946) (0)
- The Strategies of Translation@@@Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1969) (0)
- Book Review:The Legend of the Wandering Jew George K. Anderson (1968) (0)
- Notes on contributors (1960) (0)
- The Poetry of John Lydgate.Alain Renoir (1969) (0)
- Bibliography of English Translations from Medieval Sources. C. P. Farrar , A. P. Evans (1946) (0)
- The Song of EM-EL and UNRRA (1966) (0)
- Georgia Placenames@@@Placenames of Georgia: Essays of John H. Goff (1976) (0)
- Scandinavian Ballad Research Today (1963) (0)
- H. S. Bennett, Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century . (The Oxford History of Literature, II, 1.) Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1947. Pp. viii, 326. $6. (1951) (0)
- ETHNOMUSICOLOGY AND FOLKLORE: Fundamentals of Folk Literature. George W. Boswell and J. Russell Reaver (1965) (0)
- 10. Eliot’s the Hippopotamus (1944) (0)
- When We Fit for Gineral Grant (1966) (0)
- Noah in British and American Folksong (1962) (0)
- Books Received (1952) (0)
- Roger Sherman Loomis, A Mirror of Chaucer's World . Princeton, New Jersey; Princeton University Press, 1965. No pagination; 179 illustrations. $12.50; £5 net (U.K. only). (1967) (0)
- The Index of Middle English Verse. Carleton Brown , Rossell Hope Robbins (1945) (0)
- Book Review:The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology Rossell Hope Robbins (1961) (0)
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