Analytic Essays In Folklore

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110903768
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Analytic Essays in Folklore written by Alan Dundes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Analytic Essays in Folklore".

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Utah State University Press
ISBN 13 : 1646420691
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaning of Folklore written by Alan Dundes and published by Utah State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays of Alan Dundes virtually created the meaning of folklore as an American academic discipline. Yet many of them went quickly out of print after their initial publication in far-flung journals. Brought together for the first time in this volume compiled and edited by Simon Bronner, the selection surveys Dundes's major ideas and emphases, and is introduced by Bronner with a thorough analysis of Dundes's long career, his interpretations, and his inestimable contribution to folklore studies. Runner-up, the Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History, 2009

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185610
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore written by Alan Dundes and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folklorist genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche. Alan Dundes is a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his career to applying psychoanalytic theory to the materials of folklore. From Game to War offers five of his most mature essays on this topic. Dundes begins with a comprehensive survey of the history of psychological studies of folklore in the United Slates. He then presents a striking analysis of the spectrum of behavior associated with male competitive events ranging from traditional games—such as soccer and American football—to warfare. He argues that all of these activities can be seen as forms of macho battle to determine which individual or team feminizes his or its opponents. This is followed by a study of the saga of William Tell, one of the most celebrated legends in the world. A novel treatment of the biblical flood myth in terms of male pregnancy is the penultimate essay, while the concluding article proposes an ingeniously imaginative interpretation of the underpinnings of anti-Semitism.

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Meerut : Folklore Institute ; New Delhi : sole distributors, Manohar Book Service
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in Folkloristics written by Alan Dundes and published by Meerut : Folklore Institute ; New Delhi : sole distributors, Manohar Book Service. This book was released on 1978 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Géza Róheim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691234213
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore written by Géza Róheim and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, this Hungarian analyst demonstrates the validity of Freudian theory in both Western and non-Western settings. These seventeen essays, written between 1922 and 1953, are among Rcheim's most significant published writings and are collected here for the first time to introduce a new generation of readers to his unique interpretations of myths, folktales, and legends. From Australian aboriginal mythology to Native American trickster tales, from the Grimm folktale canon to Hungarian folk belief, Rcheim explores a wide range of issues, such as the relationship of dreams to folklore and the primacy of infantile conditioning in the formation of adult fantasy. An introduction by folklorist Alan Dundes describes Rcheim's career, and each essay is prefaced by a brief consideration of its intellectual and bibliographical context.

Author : Elli Köngaes-Maranda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110900556
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Structural Models in Folklore and Transformational Essays written by Elli Köngaes-Maranda and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosemary Levy Zumwalt
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253204721
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Folklore Scholarship written by Rosemary Levy Zumwalt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1988-06-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American Folklore Scholarship is rich reading, outlining the intellectual genealogy of American folklore and delivering many interesting historical tidbits. Folklore teachers will want to use this book in their introductory theory classes, while doctoral students will want to memorize the book before their qualifying exams." --Folklore Forum "... a welcome overview of the discipline in North America and the practitioners who established it." --American Anthropologist In this classic text, Zumwalt examines the split between literary folklorists and anthropological folklorists. The former looked at literary forms for folklore; the latter looked at the life and unwritten culture of the people. This struggle shaped the study of folklore in the U.S.

Author : Daniel Merkur
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824059361
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth written by Daniel Merkur and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253202406
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Folklore written by Alan Dundes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1980-08-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." —Center for Southern Folklore Magazine "It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [Dundes'] excursuses, however much one may be in disagreement (or not) with his conclusions." —Forum for Modern Language Studies Often controversial, Alan Dundes's scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. His concern here is to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, and to use folklore to increase our understanding of human nature and culture.

Author : Dundes, Alan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604735963
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Mary in the Mirror written by Dundes, Alan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms. Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of the Birth of the Hero in 1909, the psychoanalytic study of folklore has been an acknowledged part of applied psychoanalysis. However, psychoanalysts, handicapped by their limited knowledge of folklore techniques, have tended to confine their efforts to the Bible, to classical mythology, and to the Grimm fairy tales. Most folklorists have been slow to consider psychoanalysis as a method of interpreting folklore. One notable exception is folklorist Alan Dundes. In the seven fascinating essays of Bloody Mary in the Mirror, psychoanalytic theory illuminates such folklore genres as legend (in the vampire tale), folktale (in the ancient Egyptian tale of two brothers), custom (in fraternity hazing and ritual fasting), and games (in the modern Greek game of "Long Donkey"). One of two essays Dundes coauthored with his daughter Lauren Dundes, professor of sociology at Western Maryland College, successfully probes the content of Disney's The Little Mermaid, yielding new insights into this popular reworking of a Hans Christian Andersen favorite. Among folk rituals investigated is the girl's game of "Bloody Mary." Elementary or middle school-age girls huddle in a darkened bathroom awaiting the appearance in the mirror of a frightening apparition. The plausible analysis of this well-known--if somewhat puzzling--American rite is one of many surprising and enlightening finds in this book. All of the essays in this remarkable volume create new takes on old traditions. Bloody Mary in the Mirror is an expedition into psychoanalytic folklore techniques and constitutes a giant step towards realizing the potential Freud's work promises for folklore studies.