The Spring Man of Prague
Czech Versions of Spring-heeled Jack Narratives between Folklore and Popular Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21319652 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Petr Janeček (0000-0003-3437-8012, Charles University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 223-239 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Fabula (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-6242 • E-ISSN: 1613-0464 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/fabula-2020-0012 |
| OpenAlex | W3110029919 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The paper discusses the phenomenon of a well-known Czech folkloric character, the Spring Man, in its broader historical, social and pop-cultural context. This fictional hero appears in contemporary legends and anecdotes popular mostly during the Second World War; the narratives about the Spring Man represent a regional version (ecotype) of an international migratory legend about the originally English jumping urban phantom Spring-heeled Jack. Similarly to his English predecessor, the Czech Spring Man became a hero of popular culture, which, after 2002, rebranded this originally ambivalent urban apparition into the “first Czech superhero” of cartoons, comic books and movies
Archaeology · Art · Comics · Context (archaeology) · Czech · Folklore · HERO · Legend · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Popular culture · Spring (device) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |