POETICS OF

FOLKLORE
Amy Shuman / Galit Hasan-Rokem

Prepared by Jane L. Paglinawan

 ARTISTIC CREATIVITY
Implied and embedded

PERFORMANCE PRESENTATION

Works at multiple levels

• from philosophical discussion of differences to textual analyses of

communicative practices
• social values system and theory-based value system
 POETICS
LITERATURE
CONCEPT OF
BEAUTY
Implies recognition of
VERBAL ARTS regularity

Implies aesthetic norms

 CULTURAL POETICS

ETHNOPOETICS

SEMIOTICS OF CULTURE

various traditions of recurrent patterns

of linguistic form
Poetic as a sphere of knowledge

MYTH SCIENCE
Influenced by ethnolinguistic works that shifted the
poetic interests of research toward performative
aspects rather than genre
 INTERACTIONAL
FORMAL FEATURES
FEATURES

PERFORMANCE

FRAMING

TURN-TAKING

ENTITLEMENT
 SENDER
CHANNEL

ADDRESSEE

MESSAGE
CODE

CONTEXT

FUNCTIONS OF THESE 6 COMPONENTS IN LITERARY TEXTS:

1) EMOTIVE 2) CONATIVE 3) PHATIC 4) REFERENTIAL
5) POETIC 6) META-LINGUISTIC
 Approaches to the study of tradition and invention

Distressed
genres

Describe forms that were deliberately “antiqued” to create the

Appearance of belonging to an earlier period thus giving them
value
 FRAMES IN AN
INTERACTION
TEXTUAL
STYLE

METADISCURSIVE
ELEMENTS OF
THE TEXT