Folklór z hľadiska estetických kategórií

• Authors: Juraj Hamar

Title variants

EN

FOLKLORE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AESTHETIC CATEGORIES

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

In the last decades, a lot of scientific disciplines have dealt rather with the folklore poetics than the folklore aesthetics. Such ideas were represented especially by literary scientists, ethnologists, linguists, and philosophers from the environment of the Prague Linguistics Circle, the Russian formalists and the Tartu School. In folklore, the presence of antique aesthetic tradition has been evident until today. The aesthetics of folklore is based on the archetype essence of folk art, which is symptomatic especially for literary folklore. For example, the space, the characters, the stories etc. dispose of predestined trajectories that are forming the entire theme and action and the topics and metaphoric of the story, the place, the characters, and their behaviour. This is simile to the aesthetic categories in folklore. Within folk environment, the aesthetic function plays an important role when the facts are adopted through cognition and feelings of beauty. Nowadays, folklore is losing the natural conditions of its existence, which directly endangers the syncretism nature of folk art.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETICS OF FOLKLORE; AESTHETIC CATEGORIES; AESTHETIC FUNCTION; IMITATING; BEAUTY; COMIC

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 239 – 245

Contributors

author

Juraj Hamar

• Katedra estetiky a Katedra etnológie a kultúrnej antropológie Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Komenského, Gondova 2, 818 01 Bratislava, Slovakia