The Spring Man of Prague

IF 0.1 4区社会学 0 FOLKLORE

FABULA Pub Date : 2020-11-01 DOI:10.1515/fabula-2020-0012

P. Janeček

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Abstract

Abstract The paper discusses the phenomenon of a well-known Czech folkloric character, the Spring Man, in its broader historical, social and pop-cultural context. This fictional hero appears in contemporary legends and anecdotes popular mostly during the Second World War; the narratives about the Spring Man represent a regional version (ecotype) of an international migratory legend about the originally English jumping urban phantom Spring-heeled Jack. Similarly to his English predecessor, the Czech Spring Man became a hero of popular culture, which, after 2002, rebranded this originally ambivalent urban apparition into the “first Czech superhero” of cartoons, comic books and movies.

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布拉格的春人

摘要:本文将捷克著名的民间人物春人置于更广阔的历史、社会和流行文化语境中进行探讨。这个虚构的英雄出现在当代的传说和轶事中，主要是在第二次世界大战期间流行的;关于春人的叙述代表了一个国际迁徙传说的地区版本(生态型)，这个传说最初是关于英国跳跃的城市幽灵春后跟杰克的。和他的英国前辈一样，捷克春人成为了流行文化的英雄，2002年后，这个原本矛盾的城市幽灵被重新塑造成卡通、漫画书和电影中的“捷克第一个超级英雄”。

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FABULA FOLKLORE-

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期刊介绍： Fabula is a medium of discussion for issues of all kinds which are of interest to international folk narrative research. The journal contains eight divisions: Articles, Minor Contributions, Research Reports and Conference Reports, News, Projects and Queries, Reviews, Bibliographical Notes, and Books Received. Principal themes of the article section are the study of popular narrative traditions in their various forms (fairy tales, legends, jokes and anecdotes, exempla, fables, ballads, etc.), the interrelationship between oral and literary traditions as well as the contemporary genres. Interest focuses on Europe and overseas countries which are influenced by European civilization, but still, there is quite a number of contributions from other culture areas.