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"Folkloresque introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture. Folkloresque describes the phenomenon were folklore is vaguely referenced for its power to connect beyond a product--tropes in the domain of popular culture that deploy folkloristic themes but outside academic folklore."-- "This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the "folkloresque." With "folkloresque," Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such manufactured tropes are traditionally considered outside the purview of academic folklore study, but the folkloresque offers a frame for understanding them that is grounded in the discourse and theory of the discipline.Fantasy fiction, comic books, anime, video games, literature, professional storytelling and comedy, and even popular science writing all commonly incorporate elements from tradition or draw on basic folklore genres to inform their structure. Through three primary modes--integration, portrayal, and parody--the collection offers a set of heuristic tools for analysis of how folklore is increasingly used in these commercial and mass-market contexts.The Folkloresque challenges disciplinary and genre boundaries; suggests productive new approaches for interpreting folklore, popular culture, literature, film, and contemporary media; and encourages a rethinking of traditional works and older interpretive paradigms. Contributors: Trevor J. Blank, Chad Buterbaugh, Bill Ellis, Tim Evans, Michael Dylan Foster, Carlea Holl-Jensen, Greg Kelley, Paul Manning, Daniel Peretti, Gregory Schrempp, Jeffrey A. Tolbert "--

Folklore in popular culture. --- Folklore. --- Popular culture. --- Folklore and the Internet. --- Folklore --- Folklore dans la culture populaire. --- Culture populaire. --- Folklore et Internet. --- Structural analysis. --- Analyse structurale.

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Pop'philosophie » : s'il fallait se fier aux crises d'urticaires ou la morgue méprisante que ce simple mot provoque, il faudrait sans doute en conclure qu'il s'agirait du nom d'une étrange maladie. Cette maladie, ce serait celle de la philosophie qui se prostituerait au spectacle ou aux industries culturelles, à la pop-culture ou, pire, aux sirènes du populisme. Avec la pop'philosophie, ce à quoi on assisterait serait la ruine de la philosophie tout court, devenue tantôt gadget pédagogique pour enseignants désespérés, tantôt tentative un peu pathétique de capitaliser sur la glamour frelaté du monde du rock, du cinéma ou de la télévision pour ressasser les banalités les plus éculées. Et si c'était faux ? Pour Gilles Deleuze, en tout cas, qui inventa ce concept au milieu des années 1970, ça l'était : à ses yeux, rien n'était plus important que l'invention d'une pop'philosophie qui sauverait enfin la pensée en général de la double tentation de la correction professorale ou de la pontification esthétique. Permettre d'inventer une pensée véritablement anarchiste, enterrant la philosophie pour l'ouvrir à des devenirs inédits : tel était l'objectif qu'il donna au concept de pop'philosophie. Rien n'était moins simple – ni plus ambitieux. Il est temps de comprendre en quoi.

Philosophie (IDREF)027295206 --- Philosophie --- Dans la culture populaire. --- Réforme. --- Deleuze, Gilles --- Critique et interprétation.

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Throughout the medieval period, the popular classes were always reckoned as a potential force in society even though it was usually dangerous for them to articulate divergent social, political and religious opinions. Sources on medieval political and social life seem to show us a world of order, acquiescence and consent. Otherwise, they reveal a picture of bloodshed and violent strife. During times of intense conflict, however, the human tongue was always the most frequently used weapon, much more so than the sword or the dagger. The vox populi, though often difficultly retrievable in the sources, was a ubiquitous one within the realm of later medieval politics. The essays collected in this volume deal with such speech acts of political rebels, with political languages of the 'popular classes' in medieval society but also with the subversive twists to speech situations such as preaching, mockery and insults

History of Europe --- anno 1200-1499 --- Culture politique --- --Culture populaire --- --Europe --- --Moyen âge, --- Politique et gouvernement --- --Classes populaires --- Langage politique --- --History of Europe --- Classes populaires --- Political culture --- History. --- Culture populaire --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Europe

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Culture --- Popular culture --- Culture populaire --- Culturele studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Sociological aspects. --- Culture. --- Popular culture. --- Philosophy and psychology of culture

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A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life-with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy-despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives "add up to something." Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory-with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary-is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.

Popular culture --- Optimism --- Progress. --- Philosophical anthropology --- Culture populaire --- Optimisme --- Progrès --- Conditions sociales --- Progress --- Social conditions --- Progrès