Daniel Peretti
Biographic Data
| ID | 705146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Peretti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Peretti |
| SIGNATURE | PERETTI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books
As worldbuilding becomes more and more popular in both popular and academic discourse, folklorists have an opportunity to bring the methods and perspectives of the discipline to a wider audience. This paper explores invented folklore in a fictional context: performances of a creation myth in a Transformers comic book. I delineate two types of fictional mythologies while exploring how genre fiction allows for the invention of other-than-human folk…
The Bronze Lady of Sleepy Hollow: Compounding the Hybridity of Online Legendry
Legend scholarship has often focused on how legend translates to behavior in the form of legend trips. This article explores how accounts of a legend trip appear in oral tradition, print culture, and in various platforms on the internet, using the example of the legend of the Bronze Lady of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Relying on notions of hybridity in both folklore and the study of literature, I discuss the hybridization of the legend that occurs on…
Gym climbing constraints and negotiations during the pandemic
In this conceptual paper, we explore the impact of the pandemic, along with governmental and gym safety measures on gym climbing participation. We explain how internal and external forces have hindered participation and how gym climbers negotiated with those constraints during the pandemic. Drawing from secondary data sources in climbing-related media and organizations, we first illustrate how climbing gyms adapted their safety policies from shut…
The Story of Myth
Superman in myth and folklore
How the Man of Steel leapt from panels and storyboards into folklore and myth
Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore
Myth: A Very Short Introduction
Introduction: Theories of myth 1. Myth and science 2. Myth and philosophy 3. Myth and religion 4. Myth and ritual 5. Myth and literature 6. Myth and psychology 7. Myth and structure 8. Myth and politics Conclusion: bringing myth back to the world References
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books
As worldbuilding becomes more and more popular in both popular and academic discourse, folklorists have an opportunity to bring the methods and perspectives of the discipline to a wider audience. This paper explores invented folklore in a fictional context: performances of a creation myth in a Transformers comic book. I delineate two types of fictional mythologies while exploring how genre fiction allows for the invention of other-than-human folk…
Myth: A Very Short Introduction
Introduction: Theories of myth 1. Myth and science 2. Myth and philosophy 3. Myth and religion 4. Myth and ritual 5. Myth and literature 6. Myth and psychology 7. Myth and structure 8. Myth and politics Conclusion: bringing myth back to the world References
Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore
Superman in myth and folklore
How the Man of Steel leapt from panels and storyboards into folklore and myth
The Story of Myth
The Bronze Lady of Sleepy Hollow: Compounding the Hybridity of Online Legendry
Legend scholarship has often focused on how legend translates to behavior in the form of legend trips. This article explores how accounts of a legend trip appear in oral tradition, print culture, and in various platforms on the internet, using the example of the legend of the Bronze Lady of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Relying on notions of hybridity in both folklore and the study of literature, I discuss the hybridization of the legend that occurs on…
Gym climbing constraints and negotiations during the pandemic
In this conceptual paper, we explore the impact of the pandemic, along with governmental and gym safety measures on gym climbing participation. We explain how internal and external forces have hindered participation and how gym climbers negotiated with those constraints during the pandemic. Drawing from secondary data sources in climbing-related media and organizations, we first illustrate how climbing gyms adapted their safety policies from shut…
Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books
As worldbuilding becomes more and more popular in both popular and academic discourse, folklorists have an opportunity to bring the methods and perspectives of the discipline to a wider audience. This paper explores invented folklore in a fictional context: performances of a creation myth in a Transformers comic book. I delineate two types of fictional mythologies while exploring how genre fiction allows for the invention of other-than-human folk…
Art (5 works) · Mythology (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Folklore (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)