Search results for "folklore studies"

The Ransom project. A visual, multidisciplinary research on kidnapping and mediation

I am working on a multidisciplinary and transmedia project focused on kidnapping and mediation through the centuries. Starting from the current debate on Public History, I will produce both a written, canonical dissertation and also an audiovisual project, likely a documentary or a series of short films. Kidnapping is a human practice that somehow predates human history, since it is present in several mythological narratives from all over the world. With his recurring characters, the process of kidnapping have a built-in narrativity that can be examined with the tools of comparative literature, folklore studies and semiotics. My aim is to highlight the continuities and changes in this pract…

Kognitīvā poētika latviešu dainās par ābeli: no formulas uz zīmi

2012

Musdienas folkloras tekstu publicejumu petijumos verojama tendence analizet tekstu mijiedarbiba ar adresatu, paradot, ka apzina veidojas valodiski un poetiski izprasta pasaules aina. Autores petijuma zinatniska novitate – tiek izmantotas kognitivas poetikas un semiotikas teoretiskas iespejas analizejot dainas par abeli un atsedzot tos poetiskas folkloras jedzieniskos slanus, kur paralelisms starp sievieti un abeli rosina zimes konvenciju brivu darbibu ta, ka valodas struktura rada paralelismu domašana: sievietes vieta liekot abelei uzburt miniaturu ainas no sievietes dzives. Autores pielietota metode, kas apvieno kognitivo poetiku ar strukturali semiotisko pieeju lauj akcentet abeles denota…

Dorobek naukowy Milana Leščáka pozostawiony w spadku folklorystom i kulturoznawcom

2022

Milan Leščák (1940–2022) – distinguished Slovak ethnologist and folklorist; he lectured at Comenius University in Bratislava and established the Department of Folklore and Regional Studies at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Between 1963–1998 he worked at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Slovak Academy of Sciencies, and between 1998–2006 he performed the function of the Chair of the Department of Ethnology of the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. He was also the Chief Editor of the journal Slovenský Národopis, and the co-founder of the film festival Ethnofilm Czadca.