Mythic gaps Hansen, William
Nordlit,
11/2014
33
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Different kinds of omissions sometimes occur, or are perceived to occur, in traditional narratives and in tradition-inspired literature. A familiar instance is when a narrator realizes that he or she ...does not fully remember the story that he or she has begun to tell, and so leaves out part of it, which for listeners may possibly result in an unintelligible narrative. But many instances of narrative gap are not so obvious. From straightforward, objective gaps one can distinguish less-obvious subjective gaps: in many cases narrators do not leave out anything crucial or truly relevant from their exposition, and yet readers perceive gaps and take steps to fill them. The present paper considers four examples of subjective gaps drawn from ancient Greek literature (the Pandora myth), ancient Roman literature (the Pygmalion legend), ancient Hebrew literature (the Joseph legend), and early Christian literature (the Jesus legend). I consider the quite varied ways in which interpreters expand the inherited texts of these stories, such as by devising names, manufacturing motives, creating backstories, and in general filling in biographical ellipses. Finally, I suggest an explanation for the phenomenon of subjective gaps, arguing that, despite their variety, they have a single cause.
In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ...ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.
This volume contains a selection of three translations of articles by Josep M. Pujol (Barcelona, 1947–2012), one in each of the three areas that he defined to characterise his work in the field of ...folklore: the theory of interactive artistic communication; the history of folklore studies and folk literature; and folk narrative. The three articles give a taste of the important contributions he made to the study of folklore, and which have been studied and contextualised by Carme Oriol in the introduction that precedes the three texts. This edition also includes the complete folkloric bibliography of Josep M. Pujol in chronological order, with all the references.
Halk anlatıları belirli bir tarihî, kültürel ve sosyal bağlam içerisinde yaratılırlar ve
yaratıldıkları bağlam içerisinde işlev kazanırlar. Halk anlatılarının teşekkülünde yaratıldıkları
bağlam ...kadar, o yörede var olan anlatı geleneğinin de önemli bir rolü vardır. Toplumu
etkileyen bir olayın, anlatı olarak oluşması, öncelikli olarak anlatıcı tipine ve anlatı geleneğine
bağlıdır. Makalemizde, Uygur Türklerinin Naziğim Destanı ve Batı Anadolu sahasında yaygın
olarak bilinen Gülnazik türküsü içerik ve yapı bakımından karşılaştırılmış ve bu iki halk bilgisi
ürününde var olan benzerlikle üzerinde durulmuştur. Ayrıca, bu iki anlatıdan hareketle halk
anlatılarının teşekkülünde geleneğin etkisi ve rolü belirlenmeye çalışılmıştır.
No study of formulaic language in Gothic fiction is currently available. This article explores the structure of Gothic formulaic discourse in one of the 'Northanger novels,' The Necromancer (1794). ...Using the corpus-linguistics concept of collocation, as well as insights from the oral-formulaic theory of composition, the article distinguishes formula from formulaic pattern and proposes a definition for the latter concept centred on the notion of 'field.' Whereas this novel has often been berated for its incoherence, subsequent analysis shows that formulaic language builds up complex fractal networks that belie this charge and also suggests that Gothic is best looked at as a liminal genre, halfway between literary and folk narrative.
Through an in-depth analysis of Robinson’s poem ‘The Haunted Beach’, this article seeks to identify some of the textual strategies which contribute to eliciting notions of terror and sublimity in the ...pages of Gothic fiction. The initial premise is that the patterns of Gothic narrative are a modification of those found in folktales, and that the tools of folk narrative research are therefore relevant to the study of Gothic texts. Applying to Robinson’s poem Vladimir Propp’s model for the study of fairytales clarifies several incidents, roles and motifs in the text, while deviations from the fairytale model are shown to be equally significant. Thus, for instance, the poem’s Miltonic strain can be accounted for in terms of a telling modification of the standard version of the hero’s journey; or again, the ‘destinal’ meaning Robinson’s text conveys is shown to be a direct consequence of its manipulation of traditional narrative form. The analysis yields a set of ‘rules’ that arguably enter into the composition of all Gothic narrative and shape what may be called a ‘grammar’ of Gothic. A rationale for these rules is found in the concept of liminality, which allows us to unify an otherwise heterogeneous set of conventions.
This article is focused on Kopitar’s work for oral tradition in the eras of the Enlightenment and Romanticism, and on his contribution to South Slavic publications of folk narrative and linguistics, ...especially from the perspective of his cooperation with Jacob Grimm and Vuk Stefanović Karadžić. Jernej Kopitar (1780–1844), Slovene linguist, censor, and scribe in Vienna, was one of the founders of Slavic studies and the author of the renowned first Slovene scientific grammar book, entitled Grammatik der slavischen Sprache in Krain, Kärnten und Steiermark (Grammar of Slavic languages in Carniola, Carinthia and Styria 1809). He was also translator of the Freising Manuscripts (Brižinski spomeniki). As an accomplished philologist, Kopitar maintained contacts and corresponded with numerous intellectuals of that period, notably with Josef Dobrovský and the great German philologists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Some of their letters have been preserved to this day. As a mentor to Vuk Karadžić, whom he encouraged to publish literary folklore, dictionaries, and grammar, he introduced Karadžić to Jacob Grimm and made references of Karadžić in his letters to Grimm, who took Karadžić under his guidance.
Abstract
This article argues that Boethius' Consolation can be read in a folklore key as an allegorical version of the Adventure of the Hero. The text has been the object of analysis often enough, ...but never, to the author's knowledge, from the perspective proposed here. The article begins by discussing the shortcomings of certain critical positions regarding the identity of Philosophy. It then applies to the Consolation tools taken from the field of folklore studies-the narrative model proposed in Propp's Morphology of the Folktale, and the thematic pattern of Sovereignty. Analysis in this light provides evidence that Philosophy is an embodiment of Sovereignty herself, a symbolic figure usually studied by Celtic and Scandinavian scholars, but one which demonstrably plays a key role in Classical literatures as well. This approach is shown to clarify several major aspects of Boethius' text: the peculiar interplay of its metaphors, the role of Philosophy, the narrative structure within which she exists, and the significance of the various motifs and voice associated with her.
Traditional folk beliefs about vampires, werewolves, and the supernatural have been claimed, reinterpreted, and mythologized in a Live Action Role-Playing or "LARP" game called The World of Darkness. ...Plots are collectively created by player interaction and characters developed through improvisational storytelling theatre. It is deliberatively transgressive play, recreating a process of folk narrative wherein story events are determined by chance while characters, narrative forms, and performance style are built from tradition.
This is a continuation of the report, published in Bulletin of the Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples No.14 (2005). For the details of our expedition, objects, genres, etc. refer to the previous ...issue.
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