International Folkloristics

Product Description
International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.
Contents
■ Circular Concerning the Collecting of Folk Poetry
Jacob Grimm
■ Folk-Lore and the Origin of the Word
William Thoms
■ Request
Wilhelm Mannhardt
■ An Angel Flew Through the Room
Reinhold K?hler
■ The Study of Folk-Lore
Max Müller
■ The Method of Julius Krohn
Kaarle Krohn
■ The Message of the Folk-Lorist
W.B. Yeats
■ On the Need for a Bibliography of Folklore
Giuseppe Pitrè
■ A Dialogue in Gyergyó-Kilényfalva
Béla Bartók
■ In Search of Folktales and Songs
Boris and Yuri Sokolov
■ Epic Laws of Folk Narrative
Axel Olrik
■ The Rites of Passage
Arnold Van Gennep
■ The Principles of Sympathetic Magic
James George Frazer
■ The Structure of Russian Fairy Tales
Vladimir Propp
■ Observations on Folklore
Antonio Gramsci
■ Geography and Folk-Tale Oicotypes
Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow
■ Irish Tales and Story-Tellers
Seamus ó Duilearga
■ Symbolism in Dreams
Sigmund Freud
■ Wedding Ceremonies in European Folklore
Géza Róheim
■ Strategy in Counting Out: An Ethnographic Folklore Field Study
Kenneth S. Goldstein
■ Suggestions for Further Reading in the History of Folkloristics.