In:
Fabula, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Vol. 56, No. 1-2 ( 2015-01-1)
Abstract:
Already two hundred years ago folklorists realized the dialectics of ‘dying out’ and ‘revival’ of folklore genres. The shift of the narrative contexts, the rapid development of techniques of communication in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries do not mean that all old, ‘classical’ forms of folklore ceased to exist. Themes, motifs, genres might survive. But it was the social base of folklore which changed most definitely. In the 1960s, the heyday of the revival of (worldwide) comparative philology, the concept of Volkserzahlungsgemeinschaft emerged. Since then new research paradigms were launched, but the comparative and textual perspective of folk narrative studies remained the central issue. Such typically old species of research (e.g., tale-type catalogues, tale-type and genre monographs, critical editions of famous collections) appeared continuously. Besides, new fields such as morphologic and structural analyses, paremiology, contemporary narratives or ideological criticism of folklore texts have been explored. The emergence of Soviet, African, Asian or Baltic folkloristics was very productive. Furthermore, there are works dedicated to ‘new’ systems of folk narrative theories. Although we should not disregard the increasing number of new trends, the last half-century of folk narrative research ‘will never come back’.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1613-0464
,
0014-6242
DOI:
10.1515/fabula-2015-0006
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication Date:
2015
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2049688-6
SSG:
7,12
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