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"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
- Woody Allen
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ZIN Product Number: 10404573
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 Format: Paperback, 488 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322692
Release Date: Jan 10, 2000
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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.” "It is the sort of book one can brood over with continually renewed nostalgia, amusement, and wonder." — Richard Hoggart "As well as being a valuable social study, it is one of the most exhilarating anthologies of our day." — The Times Literary Supplement
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The seminal study of how children communicate, originally published in 1959. With an introduction by Marina Warner
| |  | | | | Introduction | | | Preface | | | Acknowledgements | | | List of Distribution Maps | | | 1 | Introductory | 1 | | 2 | Just for Fun | 17 | | 3 | Wit and Repartee | 41 | | 4 | Guile | 57 | | 5 | Riddles | 73 | | 6 | Parody and Impropriety | 87 | | 7 | Topical Rhymes | 98 | | 8 | Code of Oral Legislation | 121 | | 9 | Nicknames and Epithets | 154 | | 10 | Unpopular Children: Jeers and Torments | 175 | | 11 | Half-Belief | 206 | | 12 | Children's Calendar | 232 | | 13 | Occasional Customs | 293 | | 14 | Some Curiosities | 306 | | 15 | Friendship and Fortune | 323 | | 16 | Partisanship | 343 | | 17 | The Child and Authority | 361 | | 18 | Pranks | 377 | | Geographical Index | 393 | | First Line Index | 401 | | General Index | 409 |
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