The Storytelling Human : : Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today / / ed. by Lina Būgienė.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Bandoriūtė, Salomėja,; Būgienė, Lina,; Kensminienė, Aelita,; Krikščiūnas, Povilas,; Racėnaitė, Radvilė,; Vaitkevičienė, Daiva,; Zaikauskienė, Dalia,; Šlekonytė, Jūratė,
• HerausgeberIn: Būgienė, Lina,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Lithuanian Studies without Borders
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; PART ONE. History and Tradition in a Changing World --; 1. Predominant Modes of Perception and Folk Narrative --; 2. Taking Shelter in Memoir amid the Turmoil of History: Reconstructing Mental Landscapes in Autobiographical Narratives --; 3. The Dead Want to Come Home: Stories about the Repatriation of Siberian Deportee Remains to Lithuania --; 4. Borderland Lives: Historical Reflections in Eastern Lithuanian Life Stories --; PART TWO. Traditional Folklore and Modernity --; 5. Life in Folktales or Folktales in Life? How Storytellers Influence Folk Traditions --; 6. The Contemporary Consumer and Creator of Proverbs, or Why Do We Need Proverbs Today? --; 7. Homo ridens: The Joking Human in Lithuania from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries --; 8. Between Culture and Subculture: The Case of Lithuania’s Basketball Fans --; Bibliography --; Abbreviations --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644694244; 9783110688207; 9783110696295; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704747; 9783110704532; 9783110696301
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644694244?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lina Būgienė.

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.