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1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
""Folkloresque introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture. Folkloresque describes the phenomenon were folklore is vaguely referenced for its power to connect beyond a product--tropes in the domain of popular culture that deploy folkloristic themes but outside academic folklore"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the "folkloresque." With "folkloresque," Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline. Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes--integration, portrayal, and parody--the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts. The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms. Contributors: Trevor J. Blank, Chad Buterbaugh, Bill Ellis, Tim Evans, Michael Dylan Foster, Carlea Holl-Jensen, Greg Kelley, Paul Manning, Daniel Peretti, Gregory Schrempp, Jeffrey A. Tolbert "-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Challenge of the Folkloresque -- Michael Dylan Foster; Section 1: Integration; Introduction -- Jeffrey A. Tolbert; 1. The Folkloresque Circle: Toward a Theory of Fuzzy Allusion -- Michael Dylan Foster; 2. Folklore, Intertextuality, and the Folkloresque in the Works of Neil Gaiman -- Timothy H. Evans; 3. Pixies' Progress: How the Pixie Became Part of the Nineteenth-Century Fairy Mythology -- Paul Manning; 4. Comics as Folklore -- Daniel Peretti; Section 2: Portrayal; Introduction -- Jeffrey A. Tolbert. |
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5. A Deadly Discipline: Folklore, Folklorists, and the Occult in Fatal Frame -- Jeffrey A. Tolbert6. They Say Éamon Kelly Was Ireland's Greatest Storyteller -- Chad Buterbaugh; 7. "New-Minted from the Brothers Grimm": Folklore's Purpose and the Folkloresque in The Tales of Beedle the Bard -- Carlea Holl-Jensen and Jeffrey A. Tolbert; Section 3: Parody; Introduction -- Jeffrey A. Tolbert; 8. Giving the "Big Ten" a Whole New Meaning: Tasteless Humor and the Response to the Penn State Sexual Abuse Scandal -- Trevor J. Blank; 9. "The Joke's on Us": An Analysis of Metahumor -- Greg Kelley. |
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10. The Fairy-telling Craft of Princess Tutu: Metacommentary and the Folkloresque -- Bill Ellis11. Science and the Monsterological Imagination: Folkloristic Musings on David Toomey's Weird Life -- Gregory Schrempp; About the Authors; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Folklore in popular culture.
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Folklore in popular culture. |
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Folklore.
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Folklore. |
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Popular culture.
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Popular culture. |
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Folklore and the Internet.
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Folklore and the Internet. |
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Folklore -- Structural analysis.
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Folklore -- Structural analysis. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Foster, Michael Dylan, 1965- editor.
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Tolbert, Jeffrey A., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Folkloresque. Logan : Utah State University Press, [2016] 9781607324171 (DLC) 2015011321 (OCoLC)910334501 |
| ISBN |
9781607324188 (electronic book) |
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1607324180 (electronic book) |
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9781607324171 (print) |
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1607324172 (print) |
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