Folkloristics C

The lectures bring basic knowledge on characteristics of folklore and historical development of Folkloristics. Historical development of Folkloristics as a discipline is approached through four basic conceptualisations of folklore: folklore as an artefact, folklore as describable and transmissible entity, folklore as culture and folklore as behaviour. Students become acquainted with main research methods in folkloristics. They become familiar with the characteristics, functions, structure and style of folk narrative genres (folktale, legend), with hypothesis about the origin and transmission of folklore, functions of folklore, studies of narrators, folklore as performance. Contemporary forms and channels of folklore transmission are also being discussed.

Basic Literature for Lectures:
1. Bauman Richard 1988: Story, Performance, and Event : Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative, Cambridge [etc.]: Cambridge University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 887291]
2. Dundes Alan 1999: International Folkloristics, Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore. Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford, Rowman&Littlefield. [COBISS.SI-ID - 24660578]
3. Georges Robert A. in Michael Owen Jones 1995: Folkloristics: An Introduction. Bloomington in Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 24302434]
4. Lord Albert B. 2000: The Singer of Tales, Cambridge, Mass., London, England: Harvard University Press. [COBISS.SI-ID - 24660066]

Additional Literature for Lectures:
1. Bendix Regina F., Hasan-Rokem Galit, eds. 2012: A Companion to Folklore (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Anthropology). America: John Wiley and Sons. [COBISS.SI-ID - 35113773]
2. Holbek Bengt 1987: Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Danish Folklore in a European Perspective, FFC 239, Helsinki. [COBISS.SI-ID - 28198754]
3. Lüthi Max 2011: Evropska pravljica, Forma in narava. Ljubljana: Sophia, 202 str. [COBISS.SI-ID - 260316160]
4. Propp Vladimir 2005: Morfologija pravljice, Ljubljana: Studia Humanitatis. 258 str. [COBISS.SI-ID - 221899776]
5. Stanonik Marija 2001: Teoretični oris slovstvene folklore, Ljubljana: Založba ZRC. [COBISS.SI-ID - 111592960]