International Folkloristics Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore

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International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. In this volume, twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Circular concerning the collection of folk poetry / Jacob Grimm -- Folk-lore and the origin of the word / William Thoms -- Request / Wilhelm Mannhardt -- An angel flew through the room / Reinhold Köhler -- Study of folk-lore / Max Müller -- Method of Julius Krohn / Kaarle Krohn -- Message of the folk-lorist / W.B. Yeats -- On the need for a bibliography of folk-lore / Giuseppe Pitrè -- Dialogue in Gyergyó-Kilényfalva / Béla Bartók -- In search of folktales and songs / Boris and Yuri Sokolov -- Epic laws of folk narrative / Axel Olrik -- Rites of passage / Arnold van Gennep -- Principles of sympathetic magic / James George Frazer -- Structure of Russian fairy tales / Vladimir Propp -- Observations on folklore / Antonio Gramsci -- Geography and folk-tale oicotypes / Carl Wilhelm von Sydow -- Irish tales and story-tellers / Séamus Ó Duilearga -- Symbolism in dreams / Sigmund Freud -- Wedding ceremonies in European folklore / Géza Róheim -- Strategy in counting out : an ethnographic folklore field study / Kenneth S. Goldstein.