Theory and History of Folklore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theory and History of Folklore write by Vladimir I︠A︡kovlevich Propp. This book was released on 1985. Theory and History of Folklore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Humble Theory
Humble Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humble Theory write by Dorothy Noyes. This book was released on 2016-10-03. Humble Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to the world. Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made respectable for public view, although sometimes this display is deemed useful. The place of folklore studies among modern academic disciplines has accordingly been marginal and precarious, yet folklore studies are foundational and persistent. Long engaged with all that escapes the gaze of grand theory and grand narratives, folklorists have followed the lead of the people whose practices they study. They attend to local economies of meaning; they examine the challenge of making room for maneuver within circumstances one does not control. Incisive and wide ranging, the fifteen essays in this book chronicle the “humble theory” of both folk and folklorist as interacting perspectives on social life in the modern Western world. “Tying folklore to larger trends in Western cultural thought, leaving behind narrow concerns with genre or fossilized expressive forms, Humble Theory showcases the potential of folkloristics to contribute meaningfully to interdisciplinary conversations about culture.” —Journal of Folklore Research “Humble Theory is a big book. From a small scholarly field, it announces the most substantial, far-seeing insights into the world’s social life. By writing it, Noyes becomes the kind of public intellectual the United States needs.” —Journal of American Folklore
Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory
Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory write by Cathy L. Preston. This book was released on 2014-06-23. Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1996. The need to write, particularly in pre-technological recording days, in order to preserve and to analyze, lies at the heart of folklore and yet to write means to change the medium in which much folk communication and art actually took and takes place. In Part I of the collection, the contributors address literary constructions of traditional and emergent cultures, those of Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora, Carmen Tafolla, Julio Cortázar, Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Thomas Hardy, and Dacia Maraini. The contributors to Part II of the collection offer readings of a variety of traditional, vernacular, and local performances.
Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-century History
Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-century History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-century History write by Ivan Strenski. This book was released on 1987. Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-century History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Folklore Concepts
Folklore Concepts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folklore Concepts write by Dan Ben-Amos. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Folklore Concepts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
