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Culture and Belief 16. Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology

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Examines major forms of folklore (e.g., myths, legends, epics, beliefs, rituals, festivals) and the theoretical approaches used in their study. Analyzes how folklore shapes national, regional, and ethnic identities, as well as daily life; considers the...

Culture & Belief 16. Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology

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Examines major forms of folklore (e.g., myths, legends, epics, beliefs, rituals, festivals) and the theoretical approaches used in their study. Analyzes how folklore shapes national, regional, and ethnic identities, as well as daily life; considers the...

Culture and Belief 16: Performance, Tradition and Cultural Studies: An Introduction to Folklore and Mythology

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Examines major forms of folklore (e.g., myths, legends, epics, beliefs, rituals, festivals) and the theoretical approaches used in their study. Analyzes how folklore shapes national, regional, and ethnic identities, as well as daily life; considers the...

Framing Old Norse Performance Contexts: The Wedding at Reykjahólar (1119) Revisited

Book Chapter

Performance and Norse Poetry: The Hydromel of Praise and the Effluvia of Scorn

Journal Article

Old Norse Riddles and Other Verbal Contests in Performance

Book Chapter

Memory, Mediality, and the ‘Performative Turn’: Recontextualizing Remembering in Medieval Scandinavia

Journal Article

Old Norse Folklore: Tradition, Innovation, and Performance in Medieval Scandinavia

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*Folklore and Mythology 164 Maledicta: Ritualized Verbal Abuse

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Investigates international traditions of vituperation and cursing in their folkloristic, historical and sociological settings, focusing on competitive exchanges of invectives and other abusive language duels as social drama. Performance practices to be...

F&M 167. Charms, Rituals and Speech Acts: Theories of Magic in Performance

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Examines charm magic, an utterance simultaneously a command, an appeal, an embodiment of belief, a literary form, a reference to tradition, and a window onto the past. Using all available resources (e.g., charm texts, trial records, material evidence of...

Continuity: Folklore's Problem Child?

Journal Article

This essay examines the role of continuity in the study of medieval Northern popular cultural. Among other issues, it questions: the nature of continuity as a concept; the roles “tradition” and “continuity” have played in the development of folklore...

Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North

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The 2012 Radcliffe Seminar, “The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case,” inspired a series of theoretically-oriented essays which have now appeared as Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North, containing...