Is Folklore a Discipline
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8933378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard M Dorson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 84 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 177-205 |
| Publication date | 1973-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1973.9716514 |
| OpenAlex | W2065821740 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
AT a meeting of the American Folklore Society back in 1957, a panel of two well-known scholars and a dentist who wrote children's books on folklore addressed themselves to a topic such as I am presenting here. At that time the society was treading slippery ground between the pulls of amateur enthusiasts and university professors. Many of the academics themselves felt only a secondary interest in folklore, having been trained in other subject matters. The first American Ph.D. in folklore was only granted in 1953. At any rate our writer of juveniles bounced up and down on the podium flailing at the pedants who squeezed all the juice out of folklore with their dusty monographs while enviously criticizing the successful nonacademic authors whose folklore books sold
Art · Folklore · Literature · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2023 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |