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The Spring Man of Prague

Published:2020-11-01 Issue:3-4 Volume:61 Page:223-239
ISSN:1613-0464
Container-title:Fabula
language:en
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Author:

Janeček Petr¹

Affiliation:

1. Charles University, Faculty of Arts Deputy Director, Institute of Ethnology Prague Czechia

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.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Cultural Studies

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/fabula-2020-0012/pdf

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