Folklore Studies


The Study of American Folklore: An Introduction
Folklore and Fakelore: Essays Toward a Discipline of Folk Studies
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Folklife of the West, Vol. 2)
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies
Folklore Matters
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Power of Myth
Morphology of the Folktale
The Study of Folklore
The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World
Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
J.R.R. Tolkien
Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that is of people using the stories not as they were meant to be used, but as a quarry from which to dig evidence, or information, about matters in which they are interested. ...with regard to fairy stories, I feel that it is more interesting, and also in its way more difficult, to consider what they are, what they have become for us, and what values th ...more
J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories

Neil Gaiman
Zastanawiałeś się nad tym, co oznacza bycie bogiem? - spytał. Miał brodę i czapeczkę baseballową. - To oznacza odrzucenie egzystencji materialnej i przemianę w mem: coś, co trwa wiecznie w umysłach ludzi, jak dziecięca piosenka. Znaczy to, że każdy odtwarza cię sam w swoim umyśle. Praktycznie nie masz już tożsamości. Stajesz się tysiącem aspektów tego, czego pragną od ciebie ludzie. A każdy pragnie czegoś zupełnie innego. Nic nie jest stałe, nic nie jest niezmienne.
Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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