Aesthetic Is the Opposite of Anaesthetic: On Tradition and Attention.

Studies of aesthetics in folklore have frequently engaged the question of value, arguing for the autonomy of vernacular aesthetic principles against elite ideologies of form. This paper goes beneath the level of valuation to that of response, exploring the aesthetic in folklore as the practice of so...

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Published in:Journal of Folklore Research Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 125 - 176
Main Author: Noyes, Dorothy
Format: Article
Published: Indiana University Press May-Aug2014
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