Opie, Iona & Peter.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren.

New york, The New York Review of Books, 2001. 13 cm x 20 cm. XIX, 420 pages with illustrations. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Clean inside.

Includes the following chapters:– Introductory / Just for Fun / Wit and Repartee / Guile / Riddles / Parody and Impropriety / Topical Rhymes / Code of Oral Legislation / Nicknames and Epithets / Unpopular Children: Jeers and Torments / Half-Belief / Children’s Calendar etc.

″First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie’s The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called “the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out.” (Amazon).

• Keywords: Language · Literature · Rhymes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780940322691
• Inventory Number: 44019AB

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