Polish Traditional Folklore: The Magic of Time

An anthropological study investigating what representations of time in Polish folklore can reveal about the culture. Analyzes everyday scenarios to explore the bi-dimensional structure of folk temporality, the night-day formula, the four moments of sacred time breaking the circular continuum of nocturnal-diurnal time, and the smallest time united derived from assimilating external notions and elements of an alien code. There is no subject index. Distributed in the US by Columbia U. Press. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)