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The otherworld vessel as metatraditional motif in Northern European literature and folk narrative.

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書名/作者:	The otherworld vessel as metatraditional motif in Northern European literature and folk narrative.
作者:	Ball, Kimberly.
面頁冊數:	277 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1269.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-04A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative.
標題:	Literature, Germanic.
標題:	Folklore.
標題:	Literature, English.
ISBN:	9781109109887
摘要、提要註:	This study explores how the otherworld vessel in its various forms serves as a figure for tradition within traditional narrative, and thus constitutes a "metatraditional" motif. My aim is to contribute to the ongoing "critique of tradition" within folkloristics, and thereby participate in the interdisciplinary theorizing of this under-theorized concept, by considering how tradition has "traditionally" been represented. Following a brief overview of the history of the concept of tradition, and a more detailed consideration of how tradition has been conceived within folklore scholarship, a broad working definition is reached: tradition is transmission of knowledge over time. With an emphasis on materials from Ireland and Norway (Iceland for the medieval period) three groups of narratives are examined: medieval literature treating pre-Christian subject matter, "fairy" legends collected by folklorists in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and UFO-abduction narratives from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of these periods represents a time of perceived crisis and transition, in part because of significant developments in the technologies of communication used to transmit tradita. In such times of change the problems inherent to transmitting elements of the past into the future become especially apparent, and concerns arise regarding the possibility, desirability, and methodology of traditio. The medieval materials represent the transition from a pagan/primary-oral culture to a Christian/literate culture, the "fairy" legends were recorded during a time of great social change when literacy was becoming a part of the average person's everyday life, and the UFO-abduction narratives flourish at the advent of the digital age. As a tool, the figure of the vessel itself serves as reminder that tradition always involves technology, even if it is "only" that most fundamental technology of tradition: language. The study suggests that the conception of tradition as a complex and problematic phenomenon is itself traditional.
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The otherworld vessel as metatraditional motif in Northern European literature and folk narrative.
Ball, Kimberly.

The otherworld vessel as metatraditional motif in Northern European literature and folk narrative. - 277 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-04, Section: A, page: 1269.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2009.

This study explores how the otherworld vessel in its various forms serves as a figure for tradition within traditional narrative, and thus constitutes a "metatraditional" motif. My aim is to contribute to the ongoing "critique of tradition" within folkloristics, and thereby participate in the interdisciplinary theorizing of this under-theorized concept, by considering how tradition has "traditionally" been represented. Following a brief overview of the history of the concept of tradition, and a more detailed consideration of how tradition has been conceived within folklore scholarship, a broad working definition is reached: tradition is transmission of knowledge over time. With an emphasis on materials from Ireland and Norway (Iceland for the medieval period) three groups of narratives are examined: medieval literature treating pre-Christian subject matter, "fairy" legends collected by folklorists in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and UFO-abduction narratives from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of these periods represents a time of perceived crisis and transition, in part because of significant developments in the technologies of communication used to transmit tradita. In such times of change the problems inherent to transmitting elements of the past into the future become especially apparent, and concerns arise regarding the possibility, desirability, and methodology of traditio. The medieval materials represent the transition from a pagan/primary-oral culture to a Christian/literate culture, the "fairy" legends were recorded during a time of great social change when literacy was becoming a part of the average person's everyday life, and the UFO-abduction narratives flourish at the advent of the digital age. As a tool, the figure of the vessel itself serves as reminder that tradition always involves technology, even if it is "only" that most fundamental technology of tradition: language. The study suggests that the conception of tradition as a complex and problematic phenomenon is itself traditional.

ISBN: 9781109109887Subjects--Topical Terms:

406986
Literature, Comparative.

The otherworld vessel as metatraditional motif in Northern European literature and folk narrative.
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