It is clear that different ages and cultures have divergent attitudes to the questions of eroticism; for example the degree of nudity, the judgement attaching to an uncovered knee or ankle, the breasts or, indeed, to a naked face may vary from culture to culture. What is regarded as an erotic challenge in one culture is a natural part of everyday life in another, and vice versa. Indeed, even within the same culture, the view taken of eroticism (and sex) may vary from one period to another and from one social class to another – even though the dominant ideology may be of crucial importance.
Essays presented in this volume gives many examples of the hidden erotic symbolism used in folklore. Eros in folklore as a subject has by no means been exhausted yet, especially not for cultural anthropologists or culture historian, and particularly not for folklorists, who contributed extensively to the present studies.
ISBN 963 05 7814 X
Terjedelem: 253 oldal
Ára: 3000 Ft
Contents:
Erika Szepes: Sexual Life and Erotic Symbolism in Antiquity
Gábor Klaniczay: Orgy-Accusations in the Middle-Ages
Vilmos Voigt: The Heart Story
Ilona Nagy: Adam and Eve: The Myths of the Creation of Eros
Dagmar Burkhart: The Erotic Tradition in Russia: Pushkin and his Fairy-tale ’Car Nikita’
Tekla Dömötör: The Symbol of Desire and of Deceptive Happiness
Kincső Verebélyi: Lovers under the Tree
Mihály Hoppál: Nakedness, as Negation of Eros
Eva Krekovičová – Gabriela Kiliánová: Research on Slovak Erotic Folklore
Aija Janelsina-Priedîte: The Mermiad – Folklore in Fiction
Anniki Kaivola-Bregenhřj: Sexual Riddles – Folk Eroticism
Ulf Palmenfelt: The World of the Erotic Story: Formal Elements, Values and Performance
Gerald Porter: Erotic Metaphor in Occupational Songs
Sabine Dinslage: Erotic Folktales of the Bulsa in Northern Ghana
Veronika Görög: Eros in the Family… Who is marriage forbidden with?
Susan Slyomovics: A Thousand and One Nights in Egypt Today: From Folktale to Erotic Ballad
Venetia Newal: The Humor (Obscene) of an Asian Storyteller
