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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823494703321

Autore

Bendix Regina

Titolo

In search of authenticity : the formation of folklore studies / / Regina Bendix

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, 1997

ISBN

1-282-42411-4

9786612424113

0-299-15543-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 pages)

Disciplina

398/.0973

Soggetti

Folklore - United States - History

Folklore - Philosophy

Folklore - Germany - History

Authenticity (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Instrumentalization of Authenticity -- 1. Poetry, History, and Democracy: Locating Authenticity -- 2. From Experience to Representation: The Onset of a Scientific Search for Authenticity -- 3. American Romanticism and the Emergence of Folklore Studies -- Part 2: The Role of Authenticity in Shaping Folkloristic Theory, Application, and Institutionalization -- 4. Latent Authenticity Quests in Folklore Definitions and Theories in Turn-of-the-Century Germany -- 5. Defining a Field, Defining America -- Part 3: Questioning the Canon -- 6. Departures and Revisions: Toward a Volkskunde Without Canon -- 7. From Fakelore to the Politics of Culture: The Changing Contours of American Folkloristics -- 8. Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.