Nationalism and Nihilism: The Attitude of Two Hebrew Authors Toward Folklore

Guest Editor’s Introduction Chinese Folklore Studies: Toward Disciplinary Maturity

The historiography of Chinese folklore studies commonly traces the advent of the discipline to the Folksong Studies Movement (Geyaoxue yundong 歌谣学运动; (hereafter, FSM) of the May Fourth era (1910s to 1920s)1 (Chao 1942; 1943; Honko 1986; Hung 1985; Tuohy 1991). In his critical study of this movement, Wolfram Eberhard highlighted the underlying forces of nationalism and cultural awakening that re...

Ethics and politics in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent And Bozorg Alavi’s Her Eyes

In this paper, the writers try to compare two authors, the Iranian leftist, Bozorg Alavi (1904-1997) and the Polish Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Although these two writers have different attitudes to Socialism and the question of revolution, both share Romantic idealism and a tragic sense of personal and social life. Moreover, they both are precursors of modernist novel in their countries, and sh...

Review of Rella Kushelevsky, Penalty and Temptation: Hebrew Tales in Ashkenaz

Most Fabula readers do not have an easy access to Hebrew books, and therefore it would be highly advisable to have the present volume available in a more accessible language to folklore scholars around the world. The issues that Rella Kushelevsky addresses, the texts that she interprets, and the analytical method that she employs are all relevant to current folklore scholarship, and therefore t...

Archiving Tradition in a Changing Political Order: From Nationalism to Pan-Finno-Ugrianism in the Estonian Folklore Archives

The Interplay between Ethnic Identities and Social Attitude toward Foreign Language Learning and Language Proficiency of Young Gilak EFL Learners

 As a social-psychological phenomenon, language learning involves several factors. The two significant factors that attracted scholars’ attention recently are ethnicity and social attitude toward L2. Taking in to account this issue, the present study sought to investigate the relationship between Gilak ethnic identity, social attitude toward foreign language, and L2 proficiency...