Episode 59
Wrapping Up Folklore: Part 2
Released 15 October 2026
Angela and Uncle Jerry finish their look at folklore as a whole. Uncle Jerry sets out thirteen principles that make the seventeen songs one literary work.
Key Insights
Uncle Jerry argues that what holds folklore together is the shared understanding that people live inside the stories they tell and retell. The album moves from the particular to the universal. A cardigan becomes a symbol of being forgotten or remembered, a summer becomes a love that could not last, a house becomes a legend through generations of gossip, and a single thread becomes a whole philosophy of fate. The seventeen songs share a world rather than a plot.
Concepts Explored
People & Figures Mentioned
Mario JacobyVerena KastIngrid RiedelJ. D. SalingerQuentin TarantinoAbraham MaslowHilary Duff
Recommended Reading
- Aurora Leigh; Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion; Fairy Tale as Myth / Myth as Fairy Tale; The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales; The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm; Literary Theory: An Introduction; Witches
- Ogres
- and the Devil's Daughter: Encounters with Evil in Fairy Tales; Retelling/Rereading: The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times; Linguistic Criticism; No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring
- Lulling and Making Mock; anyone lived in a pretty how town; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Hilary Duff is trying to listen to the healthy part of her brain; Morphology of the Folktale; From the Beast to the Blonde; The Uses of Enchantment; Sonnets from the Portuguese; The Catcher in the Rye; Slaughterhouse-Five; Ulysses; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Design