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OverviewThis book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research. Dealing with a broad variety of materials-from archived manuscripts to audio-recorded life stories to internet folklore-it comprises such topics as history and identity; the traditional worldview influencing modern people's actions; the construction of the mental landscape; types and modes of storytelling; and the modern uses of proverbs, anecdotes, and internet lore. In a balanced way reflecting upon past and present, tradition and modernity, individual and collective, and employing modern research methodologies to dissect and analyze popular subjects and themes, this book presents a condensed view of the popular Lithuanian culture and mentality. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lina BgienPublisher: Academic Studies Press Imprint: Academic Studies Press Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9781644694237ISBN 10: 1644694239 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 10 December 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsForeword Part One. HISTORY AND TRADITION IN A CHANGING WORLD 1. Predominant Modes of Perception and Folk Narrative, Aelita Kensminienė 2. Taking Shelter in Memoir Amid the Turmoil of History: Reconstructing Mental Landscapes in Autobiographical Narratives, Radvilė Racėnaitė 3. The Dead Want to Come Home: Stories about the Repatriation of Siberian Deportee Remains to Lithuania, Daiva Vaitkevičienė 4. Borderland Lives: Historical Reflections in Eastern Lithuanian Life Stories, Lina Būgienė Part Two. TRADITIONAL FOLKLORE AND MODERNITY 5. Life in Folktales or Folktales in Life? How Storytellers Influence Folk Traditions, Jūratė Šlekonytė 6. The Contemporary Consumer and Creator of Proverbs, or Why Do We Need Proverbs Today?, Dalia Zaikauskienė 7. Homo ridens: The Joking Human in Lithuania from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries, Salomėja Bandoriūtė 8. Between Culture and Subculture: The Case of Lithuania's Basketball Fans, Povilas Krikščiūnas Bibliography Abbreviations List of IllustrationsReviews“What this volume translates to western academic audiences is a struggle to remain relevant as a discipline, and a search for affiliations with other academic fields. As a Lithuanian scholar myself, I understand the difficulty of the country’s return to the western academic world after a long break and the limited access of some scholars to English-language academic sources and forums.” — Aušra Paulauskienė, Slavic Review Author InformationLina Bgien is a researcher in Lithuanian traditional and contemporary folk narratives, oral history, and folk belief. She is the author of over two dozen scholarly articles and co-author of two edited collections(in Lithuanian) on local identity and folk memory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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