The Storytelling Human (eBook, ePUB)

Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today
Redaktion: Bugiene, Lina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. Dealing with a broad variety of materials-from archived manuscripts to audio-recorded life stories to internet folklore-it comprises such topics as history and identity; the traditional worldview influencing modern people's actions; the construction of the mental landscape; types and modes of storytelling; and the modern uses of proverbs, anecdotes, and internet lore. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, and employing modern research methodologies to dissect and analyze popular subjects and themes, this book presents a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644694251
• Artikelnr.: 60965043

Autorenporträt

Lina B¿gien¿ is a researcher in Lithuanian traditional and contemporary folk narratives, oral history, and folk belief. She is the author of over two dozen scholarly articles and co-author of two edited collections (in Lithuanian) on local identity and folk memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword Part One. HISTORY AND TRADITION IN A CHANGING WORLD 1. Predominant Modes of Perception and Folk Narrative Aelita Kensminien
2. Taking Shelter in Memoir Amid the Turmoil of History: Reconstructing Mental Landscapes in Autobiographical Narratives Radvil
Rac
nait
3. The Dead Want to Come Home: Stories about the Repatriation of Siberian Deportee Remains to Lithuania Daiva Vaitkevi
ien
4. Borderland Lives: Historical Reflections in Eastern Lithuanian Life Stories Lina B
gien
Part Two. TRADITIONAL FOLKLORE AND MODERNITY 5. Life in Folktales or Folktales in Life? How Storytellers Influence Folk Traditions J
rat
lekonyt
6. The Contemporary Consumer and Creator of Proverbs, or Why Do We Need Proverbs Today? Dalia Zaikauskien
7. Homo ridens: The Joking Human in Lithuania from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries Salom
ja Bandori
t
8. Between Culture and Subculture: The Case of Lithuaniäs Basketball Fans Povilas Krik
i
nas Bibliography Abbreviations List of Illustrations