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(Re)searching narrative motifs I 
Convenors:
Audun Kjus (Norsk Folkemuseum (The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History))
Jakob Löfgren (Lund University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
NARRATIVE
:
Room H-206
Sessions:
Wednesday 15 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

The panel addresses the past and future of the study of narrative motifs, inviting discussions on the methods and theories involved and the empirical studies produced. How do we handle digitized archives and digital folklore genres? How do we respond to recent endeavours from other disciplines?

Long Abstract:

Since the mid-twentieth century, Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk Literature (1955; 1958) and Antti Aarni and Thompson's Types of the Folktale (1961) have been powerful research tools of folkloristic enquiry, often considered fundamental in the study of folktales and popular narratives. In recent years interest in motifs have spread to a number of disciplines outside our own, from linguistics (Croft and Cruse 2004) and literature (Frontini et al. 2018) to bioinformatics (Darányi et al. 2012), and as a tool in digitalized, automatic text processing (Čech et al. 2017); sparking new debates and interdisciplinary discourse on the concept of motif and its usefulness in research.

Our panel seeks to address the past and future of the study of narrative motifs, inviting you to discuss both the methods and theories involved and the empirical studies produced. We welcome papers both in English and in Scandinavian languages, pondering questions such as:

• How has research on narrative motifs been conducted within folklore-studies, today and historically?

• How has research on motifs been conducted outside the discipline of folkloristics, and how can these approaches be used and understood as interdisciplinary tools and assets in future research?

• How does research involvement with the increasingly digitized folklore archives and the growing corpuses of digital folklore genres relate to the methodological tools and the cultural theories of narrative motifs research?

Join us in (re)visiting, revamping and (perhaps) revitalizing the continuous (re)search for motifs.

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Session 1 Wednesday 15 June, 2022, -
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