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Abstract
This essay examines a contemporary re-figuration of the traditional Appalachian folktale “Jack and the Giants’ Newground” through the lens of a recent performance event. The mechanisms of parody generate imaginative friction of foreground and background, a structural aesthetic of formal or functional congruence and indicial dissonance. I posit a key device for such genre-crossing adaptations, one I call the synchronic correlative. Synchronic correlatives are a form of meta-discursive parallelism, Synchronic because they work as non-linear connectors between otherwise independent local/temporal constructs, they are thematic or indicial pivot points that serve to launch a tale-type from one imaginative frame into another.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 310-325 |
Journal | Journal of American Folklore |
Volume | 132 |
Issue number | 525 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2019 |
Keywords
- Storytelling
- traditional
- contemporary
- adaptation
- synchronic correlative
- performance
- AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus
- Jack Tales
- creativity
- parody
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Jack and the Least Gal: A fantasia of Appalachian Wonder Tales"
Joseph Sobol (Lecturer)
20 Jul 2017Activity: Other › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar