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Filmic folklore and Chinese cultural identity

Article Abstract:

The filmic representation of Chinese folklore, also called as filmic folklore, which is an emerging body of folklore and deserves attention from both folkloristic studies and film studies is described. The emergence of the filmic folklore shows a historical and social need for reconstructing the cultural identities of China and the Chinese in an age of globalization, and of the Diaspora Chinese all over the world.

Criticism and interpretation, Motion pictures, Chinese, Chinese movies, Cultural identity

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Keens from the absent chorus: Troy to Ulster

Article Abstract:

Explicating two puzzle passages, one ancient Greek and the other Medieval Greek, the advantages of comparing old texts and modern cultures are illustrated. A twenty-first-century philology without strong affiliations to social anthropology, folkloristic, and performance study is increasing untenable and in danger of exhausting itself on hermetic quests into the endlessly intertextual.

Philology, Greek literature

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"Ethnopaleography" and recovered performance: the problematic witnesses to "Eddic Song"

Article Abstract:

Two unsurpassable modern philosophical essays on the topic of 'eddic song' are presented by concentrating on the major eighteenth-century witnesses. The witnesses interrogated deal with a wider range of Old Icelandic verse than implied by eeddicE.

English literature

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