The Folkloresque
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The Folkloresque

Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A. Tolbert

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The Folkloresque

Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World

Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Michael Dylan Foster, Jeffrey A. Tolbert

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

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Publisher
Utah State University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9781607324188
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

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    [author missing]. (2015). The Folkloresque ([edition missing]). Utah State University Press. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/2031385/the-folkloresque-pdf (Original work published 2015)

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    [author missing]. (2015) 2015. The Folkloresque. [Edition missing]. Utah State University Press. https://www.perlego.com/book/2031385/the-folkloresque-pdf.

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    [author missing] (2015) The Folkloresque. [edition missing]. Utah State University Press. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/2031385/the-folkloresque-pdf (Accessed: 25 September 2021).

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    [author missing]. The Folkloresque. [edition missing]. Utah State University Press, 2015. Web. 25 Sept. 2021.