William Bernard McCarthy (1939-2008) was professor emeritus of English at Pennsylvania State University. His books include The Ballad Matrix: Personality, Milieu, and the Oral Tradition and Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers.
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