Open AccessMarginalized Texts of a Glorified Genre
Author(s) -
Judit Gulyás
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ethnographica et folkloristica carpathica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2786-0841
pISSN - 0139-0600
DOI - 10.47516/ethnographica/23/2021/9583
Subject(s) - narrative , amusement , value (mathematics) , literature , history , standardization , aesthetics , sociology , art , political science , psychology , law , computer science , machine learning , psychotherapist
Attention towards and interest in the genre of the tale began rather belatedly in Hungarian culture. The paper provides a concise overview of the history of assigning value to this narrative genre: how it transformed from a trivial genre of idle amusement of the uneducated people into a precious cultural item that is an essential part of national heritage being safeguarded and studied from a number of perspectives. Parallel with the rise of the genre, a decline of the earliest known tales has taken place due to certain authenticity criteria retrospectively applied by newly formed disciplines as well as the standardization and naturalization of a specific mode of narration.