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Folk horror as re-enchantment of a disenchanted world

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2021
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Fehlmann, M. (2021). Folk horror as re-enchantment of a disenchanted world. In N. Radulovic & S. Dordevic (Eds.), Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment and Folklore Genres (pp. 237–253). Народна књижевност. https://www.academia.edu/67720875/A_New_Life_of_the_Fairy_Tale_in_Contemporary_Soap_Operas

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The last few years have seen an increased interest in everything remotely connected to folk horror. Folk horror is a subgenre of horror dealing with metaphysical entities and occult dangers that are imagined as coming from a distant, pagan past. Often folk horror has a focus on agricultural customs and rituals. The paper will start with a discussion of folk horror and its characteristics, its use of folklore to (re-)create an enchanted world of strange traditions and rituals. Furthermore I propose a rereading of Phil Rickman’s Merrily

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  • Radulovic, Nemanja
  • Dordevic, Smiljana

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Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment and Folklore Genres

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Belgrad

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Народна књижевност

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237

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253

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English

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2021-12-22

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2021-12-27

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978-86-7095-286-7

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286 since deposited on 2021-12-27
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Fehlmann, M. (2021). Folk horror as re-enchantment of a disenchanted world. In N. Radulovic & S. Dordevic (Eds.), Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment and Folklore Genres (pp. 237–253). Народна књижевност. https://www.academia.edu/67720875/A_New_Life_of_the_Fairy_Tale_in_Contemporary_Soap_Operas

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