The folkloresque : reframing folklore in a popular culture world / edited by Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A. Tolbert.

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TextDescription: viii, 265 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781607324171
1607324172

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398.09 FOS

Contents:

Introduction : The Challenge of the Folkloresque / Michael Dylan Foster -- The Folkloresque Circle : Toward a Theory of Fuzzy Allusion / Michael Dylan Foster -- Folklore, Intertextuality and the Folkloresque in the Works of Neil Gaiman / Tim Evans -- The Pixies\' Progress : How the Pixie Became Part of the 19th Century Fairy Mythology / Paul Manning -- Comics as Folklore : Various Perspectives / Daniel Peretti -- A Deadly Discipline : Folklore, Folklorists, and the Occult in Fatal Frame / Jeffrey A. Tolbert -- They Say That Eamon Kelly Was Ireland\'s Greatest Storyteller / Chad Buterbaugh -- 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 -- Giving the Big Ten a Whole New Meaning : Tasteless Humor and the Response to the Penn State Sexual Abuse Scandal / Trevor J. Blank -- The Joke\'s on Us : An Analysis of Meta-humor / Greg Kelley -- The Fairy-telling Craft of Princess Tutu : Metacommentary and the Folkloresque / Bill Ellis -- Science and the Monsterological Imagination : Folkloristic Musings on David Toomey\'s Weird Life / Gregory Schrempp.

Summary: 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.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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	398.09 FOS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	24/10/2022	39002100624767

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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, Timothy H. Evans, Michael Dylan Foster, Carlea Holl-Jensen, Greg Kelley, Paul Manning, Daniel Peretti, Gregory Schrempp, Jeffrey A. Tolbert

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgments (p. vii)
Introduction: The Challenge of the Folkloresque (p. 3)
Section 1 Integration
Introduction (p. 37)
1 The Folkloresque Circle: Toward a Theory of Fuzzy Allusion (p. 41)
2 Folklore, Intertextuality, and the Folkloresque in the Works of Neil Gaiman (p. 64)
3 Pixies' Progress: How the Pixie Became Part of the Nineteenth-Century Fairy Mythology (p. 81)
4 Comics as Folklore (p. 104)
Section 2 Portrayal
Introduction (p. 123)
5 A Deadly Discipline: Folklore, Folklorists, and the Occult in Fatal Frame (p. 125)
6 They Say Éamon Kelly Was Ireland's Greatest Storyteller (p. 144)
7 "New-Minted from the Brothers Grimm": Folklore's Purpose and the Folkloresque in The Tales' of Beedle the Bard (p. 163)
Section 3 Parody
Introduction (p. 175)
8 Giving the "Big Ten" a Whole New Meaning: Tasteless Flumor and the Response to the Penn State Sexual Abuse Scandal (p. 179)
9 "The Joke's on Us": An Analysis of Metahumor (p. 205)
10 The Fairy-telling Craft of Princess Tutu: Metacommentary and the Folkloresque (p. 221)
11 Science and the Monsterological Imagination: Folkloristic Musings on David Toomey's Weird Life (p. 241)
About the Authors (p. 255)
Index (p. 257)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Michael Dylan Foster associate professor of folklore and East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University He is the author of Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai, The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, and numerous articles on folklore, literature, and media.
Jeffrey A. Tolbert is a PhD candidate in folklore at Indiana University. His research focuses on supernatural belief, and his dissertation examines belief and the landscape in contemporary Ireland. His broader research interests include folklore and popular culture, especially video games, and supernatural traditions in new/digital media, such as the Slender Man Internet phenomenon.