{"title":"Folklore and Traditional Narrative in Antiquity","description":"\u003cp times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif white margin:=\"\" background:=\"\" font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeries Editor: Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter, UK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditorial Advisory Board members:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRyan Denson, University\r\n        of Silesia in Katowice, Poland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDebbie\r\n        Felton, \u003c\/span\u003eUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst, USA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharlotte\r\n        Spence,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSt Hilda's College, University of\r\n        Oxford, UK \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFolklore\r\n            and Traditional Narrative in Antiquity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e provides a forum for the study of folklore in the texts\r\n        of Classical Antiquity. It offers a venue for the excellent and exciting work\r\n        currently being carried out in this interdisciplinary field in a dispersed\r\n        fashion. ‘Traditional Narrative’ is a purposefully capacious amplification. It\r\n        extends from narratives embodying tale-types formally classified in\r\n        Folkloristics’ standard reference works,\u003cspan\u003e \r\n        \u003c\/span\u003eabove all \u003cem\u003eThe Types of International Folktales\u003c\/em\u003e (‘ATU\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e’),\r\n        to the expansive group of unclassified or under-classified narrative types with\r\n        which ancient texts are saturated, be they ‘high’, ‘low’ or ‘popular’, ‘oral’\r\n        or ‘literary’, ‘mythical’, ‘legendary’ or ‘fairytale’, or indeed none of the\r\n        above. Such generosity of purview is called for by Classical literature’s modes\r\n        of production, but it also addresses the acknowledged difficulty that Classical\r\n        material has not been accommodated well in ATU\u003csup\u003e2\u003c\/sup\u003e or its predecessors.\r\n    \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eParameters:\r\n        The series’ chronological cut-off point for the \u003cem\u003efocal\u003c\/em\u003e material of study\r\n        is notionally AD 476, the end of the Roman empire in the West (the portion of\r\n        Late Antiquity prior to this may prove particularly fertile), but this is a\r\n        soft boundary and the comparative material upon which Folkloristics depends\r\n        usually derives from later periods, as well as from lands and cultures beyond\r\n        those of Graeco-Roman civilisation. (Studies fundamentally based in later\r\n        material might be addressed rather to our companion series, \u003cem\u003eExeter New\r\n            Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief\u003c\/em\u003e.) Also welcome are\r\n        studies primarily grounded in the ancient languages of the Near East\/West Asia\r\n        (e.g., Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac and Egyptian). Invited too are studies that\r\n        extend beyond a base of narrative material and into cultural material, e.g., in\r\n        the fields of ancient folk religion, folk magic or folk medicine.\u003cspan\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: The\r\n        series will welcome volumes normally up to 100,000 words in length: monographs;\r\n        edited volumes (if tightly focused and edited and appropriately introduced);\r\n        translations of texts, provided that these are accompanied by substantial\r\n        introductions and\/or commentaries drawing out their folkloric interest; and,\r\n        relatedly, sourcebooks, provided once again that the folkloric interest of the\r\n        passages selected is brought out in introductions and\/or commentaries. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLanguage: The\r\n        series is keen to reach beyond Anglo-Saxon scholarship—much outstanding work in\r\n        this field is done in Italy, Scandinavia and Germany, for instance—but the\r\n        economics of the series will confine the medium of publication to English. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo discuss\r\n            your book proposal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e please\r\n        contact:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif text-indent:=\"\" font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeries\r\n        editor: Daniel Odgen, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:D.Ogden@exeter.ac.uk\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eD.Ogden@exeter.ac.uk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif text-indent:=\"\" font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" times=\"\" new=\"\" roman serif font-size:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCommissioning\r\n        Editor: Becky Taylor, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:b.taylor@exeterpress.co.uk\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eb.taylor@exeterpress.co.uk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.exeterpress.co.uk\/collections\/folklore-and-traditional-narrative-in-antiquity.oembed","provider":"University of Exeter Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}