Metafolklore

Author : Gillian Bennett,Paul Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135812195

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Contemporary Legend by Gillian Bennett,Paul Smith Pdf

First published in 1996. For most of the time since the Grimm brothers first contrasted the fairy tale (Märchen) and the legend (Sage), the former has enjoyed the greater reputation among folklorists. Only in recent years, and with the work of such scholars as Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith, has it been recognized that—both as art and as news—the legend is now central to contemporary culture in a way that the Märchen no longer is. The present book is the first collection of essays on legend to appear in English since 1971. Nevertheless, its publication consolidates a gradual shift which has taken place over the last two decades, in which English-language scholarship has taken the lead in the study of certain kinds of legends—variously dubbed modern horror legends, urban legends, urban myths or, here, contemporary legends.

Author : Alexander V. Avakov
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781479753888

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Metafolklore by Alexander V. Avakov Pdf

The book is organized in Folklore Units. Each Folklore Unit has Context and may have one or more Metacontexts with citations of works of great philosophers or writers; hence, the title of the book is Metafolklore. The book covers the life of immigrants from the USSR in the U.S., remembers life in Russia, and gradually concentrates on the modus operandi of the KGB, FBI, CIA, NYPD, NSA, ECHELON, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Al, and ISI. It covers frontiers of legal theory of surveillance. What distinguishes this book is the intensely personal account of the events and issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UVA:X001814189

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Folk-lore by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1687 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135578770

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American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand Pdf

Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority

Author : Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292735101

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Folklore Genres by Dan Ben-Amos Pdf

The essays in Folklore Genres represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions. The study as a whole is concerned with the concept of genre and with the history of genre theory. A selective bibliography provides a guide to analytical and theoretical works on the topic. The literary-oriented articles conceive of folklore forms, not as the antecedents of literary genres, but as complex, symbolically rich expressions. The ethnographically oriented articles, as well as those dealing with classification problems, reveal dimensions of folklore that are often obscured from the student reading the folklore text alone. It has long been known that the written page is but a pale reproduction of the spoken word, that a tale hardly reflects the telling. The essays in this collection lead to an understanding of the forms of oral literature as multidimensional symbols of communication and to an understanding of folklore genres as systematically related conceptual categories in culture. What kinship terms are to social structure, genre terms are to folklore. Since genres constitute recognized modes of folklore speaking, their terminology and taxonomy can play a major role in the study of culture and society. The essays were originally published in Genre (1969–1971); introduction, bibliography, and index have been added to this edition.

Author : Dan Ben-Amos
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253052445

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Folklore Concepts by Dan Ben-Amos Pdf

By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sparking lively debate that often centers on why his definition intrinsically acknowledges tradition rather than expresses its connection forthright. Without tradition among people, there would be no art or communication, and tradition cannot accomplish anything on its own—only people can. Ben-Amos's focus on creative communication in communities is woven into the themes of the theoretical essays in this volume, through which he advocates for a better future for folklore scholarship. Folklore Concepts traces Ben-Amos's consistent efforts over the span of his career to review and critique the definitions, concepts, and practices of Folklore in order to build the field's intellectual history. In examining this history, Folklore Concepts answers foundational questions about what folklorists are doing, how they are doing it, and why.

Author : Chaise LaDousa
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780253223265

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House Signs and Collegiate Fun by Chaise LaDousa Pdf

It's no secret that fun is important to American college students, but it is unusual for scholars to pay attention to how undergraduates represent and reflect on their partying. Linguist and anthropologist Chaise LaDousa explores the visual manifestations of collegiate fun in a Midwestern college town where house signs on off-campus student residences are a focal point of college culture. With names like Boot 'N Rally, The Plantation, and Crib of the Rib, house signs reproduce consequential categories of gender, sexuality, race, and faith in a medium students say is benign. Through his analysis of house signs and what students say about them, LaDousa introduces the reader to key concepts and approaches in cultural analysis.

Author : Bīrendranātha Datta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015052346957

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Folkloric Foragings in India's North-East by Bīrendranātha Datta Pdf

Author : Richard Bauman
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478607984

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Verbal Art as Performance by Richard Bauman Pdf

The cross-disciplinary and integrative nature of sociolinguistics is clearly evidenced in this highly regarded, insightful volume. Baumans holistic study brings together the separate fields of folklore, anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism as they focus on verbal art. The work represented here is a clear assembly of perspectives and methodology of these disciplines from the viewpoint of performanceartistic action and artistic event. The basic principles underlying sociolinguistics (patterned variability and context as revealed through language) provide the coherence. In addition to Baumans useful conceptual framework, four lively, informative essays by leading scholars are included that clarify, illustrate, and amplify in an effort to treat verbal art as performance.

Author : Sahdev Luhar
Publisher : N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788195500840

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Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses by Sahdev Luhar Pdf

Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.

Author : Daniel Peretti
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496814593

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Superman in Myth and Folklore by Daniel Peretti Pdf

Superman rose from popular culture--comic books, newspaper strips, radio, television, novels, and movies" but people have so embraced the character that he has now become part of folklore. This transition from popular to folk culture signals the importance of Superman to fans and to a larger American populace. Superman's story has become a myth dramatizing identity, morality, and politics. Many studies have examined the ways in which folklore has provided inspiration for other forms of culture, especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of Steel's origins but on the culture he has helped create. Superman provides a way to approach fundamental questions of human nature, a means of exploring humanity's relationship with divinity, an exemplar for debate about the type of hero society needs, and an articulation of the tension between the individual and the community. Through examinations of tattoos, humor, costuming, and festivals, Peretti portrays Superman as a corporate-owned intellectual property and a model for behavior, a means for expression and performance of individual identity, and the focal point for disparate members of fan communities. As fans apply Superman stories to their lives, they elevate him to a mythical status. Peretti focuses on the way these fans have internalized various aspects of the character. In doing so, he delves into the meaning of Superman and his place in American culture and demonstrates the character's staying power.

Author : Simon J. Bronner,Caspar Battegay
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789624335

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Connected Jews by Simon J. Bronner,Caspar Battegay Pdf

How Jews use media to connect with one another has consequences for Jewish identity, community, and culture. These essays consider how different media shape actions and project anxieties, conflicts, and emotions, and how Jews and Jewish institutions harness, tolerate, or resist media to create their ethnic and religious social belonging.

Author : Alfred M. Johnson Jr.
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725242333

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The New Testament and Structuralism by Alfred M. Johnson Jr. Pdf

This volume contains, in English translation, the six articles which appeared in 'Languages' 22 (1971). In addition, Corina Galland has an introduction to the method of A. J. Greimas. A 74-page glossary of formalist and structural terms has been added.

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Meerut : Folklore Institute ; New Delhi : sole distributors, Manohar Book Service
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Folk literature
ISBN : UOM:39015004119429

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Essays in Folkloristics by Alan Dundes Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132152328

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R L S, Regional Language Studies ... Newfoundland by Anonim Pdf