Modernity and Folk Literature

Author: Hu Xiaohui
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is a comprehensive reflection on the theories and methods of modern folk literature or folkloristics, categorized as an "academic history" work. The author employs a phenomenological approach to suspend the historical objects of academic research, focusing on the core concept of "the people" or "folk custom" as the main thread. It explores the modernity characteristics of folk literary discourse both in China and abroad. Furthermore, it takes the occurrence of psychoanalysis in the context of modern folk literary discourse as an entry point to discuss the modernity principles embodied in modern academia in terms of methodology and object construction. Therefore, this book also represents the author's theoretical reflections and the of the basic issues in international folk literature or folkloristics research from the perspective of cross-cultural dialogue.