赛道上的婴儿植根于 19 世纪的报业传奇

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.2478/jef-2023-0023

Bengt af Klintberg

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在中国作家余华的小说中，主人公的出生发生在火车厕所里。他摔倒在铁轨上，幸免于难。在过去的30年里，这种内容的新闻报道已经被报道了好几次。据说这一事件发生在中国或印度。从民俗学的角度来看，这个故事可以被定义为一个报纸上的传说。就像口述传统中的当代传说一样，报纸上的传说通常是关于婴儿卷入的事故。与口头流传的传说相反，它们通常有一个幸福的结局;它们的出版是为了抵消日报必须报道的所有真实事故。《跑道上的婴儿》最早的版本于1888年发表在一本医学杂志上。这本书的作者是著名的内科医生威廉·奥斯勒(William Osler)，他以爱开玩笑而闻名，今天很难判断他的故事是根据真实案例，还是奥斯勒杜撰的。

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The Baby on the Track: A Newspaper Legend with Roots in the 19th Century

Abstract In a novel by a Chinese author, Yu Hua, the birth of the main character takes place in a train toilet. He falls down on the track and survives. During the last 30 years news stories with this content have been reported several times. The event is generally said to have taken place in China or India. From a folkloristic perspective the story can be defined as a newspaper legend. Like contemporary legends in oral tradition newspaper legends often are about accidents where babies are involved. As opposed to the orally transmitted legends they generally have a happy ending; they are published as a counterbalance to all the real accidents that daily papers have to report. The oldest version of “The Baby on the Track” was published in 1888 in a medical journal. The author, the famous physician William Osler, had a reputation for being a practical joker, and today it is difficult to judge if his story is based on a real case or if Osler invented it.

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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JEF) is a multidisciplinary forum for scholars. Addressed to an international scholarly audience, JEF is open to contributions from researchers all over the world. JEF publishes articles in the research areas of ethnology, folkloristics, museology, cultural and social anthropology. It includes both studies focused on the empirical analysis of particular cases as well as those that are more theoretically oriented.