Towards a new “folkloric turn” in the literature of early modern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880646 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Covington (0000-0001-9768-5656, The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Publication date | 2018-08-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12497 |
| OpenAlex | W2889454464 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
This essay offers new suggestions in the study of sixteenth‐ and seventeenth‐century English and Irish literature through a specifically folkloric lens. While scholars of medieval and modern texts in Ireland have made much progress in uncovering and debating the presence of popular oral traditions (and orality in general) in their respective sources, those who focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have yet to fully explore the same attributes in their own rich body of literature. This essay will therefore survey the sources, methods, and directions which a “folkloric turn” can take, especially as it incorporates a range of models that can be used to analyze orality, residues of popular traditions, and the utilization of particular motifs to open a new prism onto the period. While there are certainly challenges in utilizing this approach, folklore has the potential to contextualize and deepen our understanding of sources that include antiquarian records, travel accounts, ballads, legal depositions, English and Irish poetry, and even the modern folkloric tales to which they relate
Art · Ballad · Folklore · Irish · Linguistics · Literacy · Literature · Oral tradition · Orality · Poetry · Sociology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
Folklore and folklife
Locating Irish Folklore
Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500–1700
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550–1650
Variation across Speech and Writing
Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland
Irish Catholic identities
Supernatural Legends in Nineteenth-Century Irish Writing
Migratory Legends in Medieval Irish Literature
Gaelic Folk-Tales and Mediæval Romances
The Irish Lament
Re‐situating Folklore
Animals in Irish literature and culture
Béaloideas
Stories from Gaelic Ireland
Homer and Irish Heroic Narrative
Folklore and Literature
The Making of Homeric Verse
The Severed Head and the Grafted Tongue
Irish Folklore as a Source for Research
The Irish Folklore Commission 1935–1970. History, Ideology, Methodology
Folklore and Shakespeare
Martyrs in Flames
Print and Popular Culture in Ireland, 1750–1850
Motif-Index of Early Irish Literature
Oral literature in Africa
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Celtic Folklore and Christianity
Feminist Messages
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |