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Katherine Elkins started the topic CFP: Special Issue on Good and Evil in Fairytales (and folktales) in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
Hello,
I’m guest editing a special issue of humanities and we have room for a few more essays. The due date for final drafts will be a year from this August in 2024. The CFP is attached.
If you’re interested, please send me a 250-word abstract by August 2023 to elkinsk@kenyon.edu. I’m also happy to answer any questions/inquiries.
We have a g…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
This autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Kate Pond started the topic Contribute to my Research? in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
I’m attempting an interesting project for my master’s thesis, and I need content! Take a look at my survey, and if it strikes something in you, I hope you participate. If it’s not your scene… maybe just share this link with one friend?
Thanks in…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited On Being One’s Own Heir: British Portraiture, Metaphysical Inheritance, and The Picture of Dorian Gray in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago
Much scholarship on The Picture of Dorian Gray has focused on its possible textual sources and its place in literary traditions. This article demonstrates that by contextualizing the novel in the history of art and the tradition of British portraiture, we are able to answer significant yet overlooked questions such as why Wilde chose “picture” rat…[Read more]
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Andrew G. Christensen deposited Myth and Mithraism in Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
What T. S. Eliot called the “mythic method,” even in its modern form, was not an invention of Modernism. A significant precursor is Thomas Hardy, whose Mayor of Casterbridge has long been appreciated for its mythological structure and wealth of allusion. Here I suggest a new addition to mythological interpretation of the novel: the Greco-Roman dei…[Read more]
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John Laudun started the topic Candidate for Executive Committee in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
Hello, everyone. I am delighted to have been nominated to serve on the GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale forum executive committee. I am on the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where I am the Meriwether Professor of English. Like many others, I have degrees in both English (BA, Louisiana State University; MA, Syracuse University…[Read more]
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John Laudun started the topic Candidate for Executive Committee in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 8 months ago
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited No Laughing Matter: Fairy Tales and the 2016 US Presidential Election in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
Weaponizing the fairy tale in the service of political persuasion and propaganda is a popular tactic. In times of conflict, fairy-tale motifs are often adapted for political satire and commentary in a variety of popular media, from poetry and protest songs to caricatures and cartoons. In the 2016 American presidential election–which provided more…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Essay: The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! in the discussion
Folklore and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago
The Rust Belt is Mythical, too! is a rhetorical analysis of the media-generated rhetorical trope “The Rust Belt.” Why are few if any writers of fiction being published who deal with this large region? What is the effect of being called “The Rust Belt” upon creativity and cognitive development and/or writing anxiety?
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 3: Assembled in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Assembled cigar box fiddle. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 2: Disassembled in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
The label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 1: Disassembled in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a “cigar box.”
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Adewale Bankole Ajayi deposited Ritualization as pragmatic deployment of revolutionary consciousness in the drama of Femi Osofisan in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
Early works of dramatic criticism seeking to draw parallels between ritual and drama in Africa concentrated on examining the dramatic characteristics of ritual to see how drama evolved from ritual. However, a closer application of the theories of Girard, Schechner, Smith, Hubert Mauss and Turner reveal new perspectives on the interaction between…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited “We Are What We Are Supposed to Be”: The Brothers Grimm as Fictional Representations in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years ago
This article examines how the Brothers Grimm are fictionalized in German and Anglo-American media. While some representations revere and romanticize the iconic brothers for preserving the fairy-tale tradition, other depictions challenge the conventional understanding of their work and cultural contribution. In these demythologizing depictions, the…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited Yours, Mine, or Ours? Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and the Ownership of Fairy Tales in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years ago
Fairy tales are often described in proprietary terms. Because the myth of their origin among the anonymous folk is so strong, the general tendency in both popular and scholarly discourse is to conceive of fairy tales as either the common property of all humanity or the treasures of specific cultures, nations, or ethnic groups. Since the…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited Kiss and Tell: Orality, Narrative, and the Power of Words in “Sleeping Beauty” in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years ago
Scholarship on the Sleeping Beauty tale has gone largely unappreciated. Underlying the story’s obvious themes and motifs—birth, death/sleep, rebirth—and complicating its gender dynamic is a preoccupation with orality and telling that gives the story a significant self-reflective dimension. This article examines how the tale reflects on story…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited Children, War, and the Imaginative Space of Fairy Tales in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years ago
Explores how children of war and adults reflecting on their violent wartime childhoods have had recourse to the space of fairy tales to interpret their traumatic physical environments and their emotional lives within them. To that end, the article (1) considers the nature of time and space in the classic fairy tale; (2) establishes how the…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited Decolonizing Fairy-Tale Studies in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years ago
This article focuses initially on a new strand of empirical research that deliberately utilizes folktales and fairy tales to make broader claims for the scientific method and to advocate for the application of evolutionary science to literature in general. After critiquing this work for is its unquestioning reliance on the problematic…[Read more]
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Donald Haase deposited Is Seeing Believing? Proverbs and the Film Adaptation of a Fairy Tale in the group
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 6 years ago
A study of the use of proverbs in the film The Company of Wolves (dir. Neil Jordan; screenplay by Jordan and Angela Carter), based on Angela Carter’s adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood tales in her book The Bloody Chamber.
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