Folklore theory in postwar Germany

by Naithani, Sadhana

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Full title :Folklore theory in postwar Germany / Sadhana Naithani

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Can the study of folklore survive brutal wars and nationalized misappropriations? Does folklore make sense in an age of fearsome technology? These are two of several questions this book addresses with specific and profound reference to the history of folklore studies in Germany. There in the early nineteenth century in the ideological context of romantic nationalism, the works of the Brothers Grimm pioneered the discipline. The sublimation of folklore studies with the nation's political history reached a peak in the 1930s under the Nazi regime. This book takes a full look at what happened to folklore after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis. A special focus on Lutz Röhrich (1923-2006), whose work spans the decades from 1955 to 2006, makes this book a unique window into a monumental reclamation. In 1945 Röhrich returned from the warfront at the age of twenty-three, a wounded amputee. Resuming his education, he published his seminal Märchen und Wirklichkeit (Folktale and Reality) in 1956. Naithani argues that through this and a huge body of scholarship on folktale, folksong, proverbs, and riddles over the next decades, Röhrich transformed folklore scholarship by critically challenging the legacies of Romanticism and Nazism in German folklore work. Sadhana Naithani's book is the first full-length treatment of this extraordinary German scholar written in English.

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Description:xi, 142 s

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781617039935, 1617039934
oclc:ocn876279173
LC Classification:GR166
Dewey Decimal:398.20943

Subjects

(fast)Criticism, interpretation, etc (fast)Folk literature, German (fast)Folklore (fast)Germany (fast)Political science (fast)Since 1900 (fast)Social history Allemagne -- Conditions sociales -- 20e… Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende … Criticism, interpretation, etc Folk literature, German Folk literature, German -- History and … Folklore Folklore -- Histoire et critique. -- Al… Folklore -- History and criticism. -- G… Forschung Germany Germany -- Politics and government -- 1… Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th ce… Geschichte