The Storytelling Human : : Lithuanian Folk Tradition Today / / 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 topi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lithuanian Studies without Borders
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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