Call for abstracts (fwd)

[Amy Rachel Goldenberg]

Attention Folklorists!!!!!

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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 00:02:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Foklore Publications Group <folkpub at indiana.edu>
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Subject: Call for abstracts



CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Trickster Press would like to invite submissions of abstracts by graduate
students and recent graduates in folklore for a new book.  It will be a
collection of essays, each on a theory or theoretical perspective
important to folklorists.  The collection will serve as a handbook of
theories useful for an understanding of the historical and current issues
in the discipline of folklore as well as a positive statement about the
ways in which folklorists use and contribute to a variety of theoretical
approaches.  The audience will be graduate students and undergraduates in
upper level folklore classes and researchers and professors/instructors
seeking overviews or preliminary bibliographies.

We are currently soliciting abstracts for essays on theoretical topics
(see list).  In its final version, each short essay (around 20 pages) will
include the following:

1)      a) A description of the main tenets and an introduction to the
        main proponents (inside and outside of folklore) of the theory.
        b) A brief discussion of existing critiques of the theory.
        c) An annotated bibliography; annotations will be brief.
2)      How can and have folklorists used this theory?  This section
        should include an abstract discussion of the ways the theory has been
        put to use over a wide range of topics, as well as specific
        examples from folklorists' research and publications.
3)      How and what have folklorists contributed to the theory? What is
        it about folklore which adds a new perspective or strengthens the
        theory?

Abstracts should be one page long and should include a brief discussion of
how you will approach the theoretical perspective with reference to each
of the three guidelines above.

We encourage submissions on the following topics.  In addition, we are
open to suggestions; if there is a topic about which you would like to
write that is not included on the list, please contact us.

POSSIBLE TOPICS
Action/practice theory, aesthetics, analytical (Jungian) psychology,
applied folklore, behaviorism and cognitive behaviorism, cognitive
science, contemporary legend theory, ethnography of speaking,
ethnopoetics, feminism, fieldwork and ethics, folk psychology
(ethnopsychology), functionalism, genre theory, hermeneutics, theories of
history (folklore as/in history), humor theory, learning theory,
linguistics, linguistic anthropology, literary theory (deconstructionism,
new criticism, new historicism), Marxism, modernism and postmodernism,
theories of mythology, narrative theory/narratology, nationalism and other
political theories, oral formulaic theory, performance theory,
phenomenology and science, poetics, theories of popular culture,
postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, public sector, rhetoric, romanticism and
localism, semiotics, sociological theories (ethnomethodology),
structuralism (syntagmatic and paradigmatic) and poststructuralism,
technology.

Please submit abstracts by January 15, 1998 (the deadline for completed
drafts will be June 15, 1998).  Submissions should be sent to:

Folklore Publications Group, Inc.
Indiana University
attn: Stephen and Lisa
504 North Fess
Bloomington, Indiana 47408

If you have questions or concerns please contact Stephen Olbrys or Lisa
Gilman at (812) 855-0426; email: folkpub at indiana.edu.

We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your submissions.

Stephen Olbrys
Lisa Gilman
Editors