Routledge, 2021. — 326 p. This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands’ constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of uncertainty and change. This book is concerned with understanding folklore, particularly through its...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. — 270 p. International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 288 p. Handbook for Folklore and Ethnomusicology Fieldwork offers a comprehensive review of the ethnographic process for developing a project, implementing the plan, and completing and preserving the data collected. Throughout, readers will find a detailed methodology for conducting different types of fieldwork such as digital ethnography or...
Scribner Book Company, 2014. — 244 p. We all know "theres no such thing as monsters", but our imaginations tell us otherwise. From the mythical beasts of ancient Greece to the hormonal vampires of the Twilight saga, monsters have captivated us for millennia. Matt Kaplan, a noted science journalist and monster-myth enthusiast, employs an entertaining mix of cutting-edge...
Matador, 2020. — 400 p. Britain has a rich folklore, and the most fascinating figures in it are undoubtedly the fairies. Many explanations have been given for British fairies, but the most popular is that they are the souls of the pre-Christian dead, living in pagan strongholds like Bronze Age barrows or Iron Age hillforts. This book first looks at burial practices and...
М.: КоЛибри, 2021. — 1733 с. — ISBN 978-5-389-19060-3 Владимир Яковлевич Пропп — выдающийся отечественный филолог, профессор Ленинградского университета. Один из основоположников структурно-типологического подхода в фольклористике, в дальнейшем получившего широкое применение в литературоведении. Труды В. Я. Проппа по изучению фольклора («Морфология сказки», «Исторические корни...
М.: Лабиринт, 1999.
В очередной том полного Собрания трудов Владимира Яковлевича Проппа входят его работы о смехе, впервые собранные вместе. Классификация видов смеха, осуществленная в — пусть незавершённой — книге «Проблемы комизма и смеха» признаётся одной из лучших в современной гуманитарной науке, а статья «Ритуальный смех в фольклоре» является связующим звеном между этой,...
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