The Philosophy of Enchantment: Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology PDF
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENCHANTMENT This page intentionally left blank THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENCHANTMENT Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology R. G. COLLINGWOOD Edited by David Boucher, Wendy James, and Philip Smallwood CLARENDON PRESS (cid:1) OXFORD 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan SouthKorea Poland Portugal Singapore Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork (cid:1)TeresaSmith2005;introductionandeditorialmaterial (cid:1)DavidBoucher,WendyJames,andPhilipSmallwood2005 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2005 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable ISBN0–19–926253–5 9780199262533 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 TypesetbyKolamInformationServicesPvt.Ltd,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritainonacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd,King’sLynn,Norfolk To Teresa Smith note on illustrations Part1:FrontispiecefromTheLifeandDeathofCormactheSkald, translatedbyW.G.CollingwoodandJonStefansson,1902. Part2:FrontispiecefromThorsteinoftheMere,byW.G.Colling- wood,1895. Part 3: Illustration from The Story of the Volsungs, translated by EirikrMagnussonandWilliamMorris,1888,editedbyH.Halli- daySparling. acknowledgements We are grateful for the support of Mrs Teresa Smith, Colling- wood’sdaughter,whoencouragedthisprojectfromanearlystage, andgenerouslyconsentedtothepublicationofourselectionfrom herfather’sunpublishedwork.ProfessorDavidHopkinsofBristol University and Professor Roger Scruton both assisted us when takingthemeasureofCollingwood’s‘Words and Tune’. DrJohn Mullarkey of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sunderland helped locate Collingwood’s manuscript quotations fromBergson.ProfessorJackZipesoftheUniversityofMinnesota read through the entire folktale manuscript and gave the editors the benefit of many valuable observations and judgements. The editors are also grateful for the support and encouragement of ProfessorDonaldS.Taylor,EmeritusProfessorofEnglishatthe UniversityofOregonandauthoroftheannotatedBibliographyof Collingwood’s unpublished manuscripts. Professor Taylor was one of the first scholars to recognize the value to literary history andtheoryofCollingwood’sunpublishedwritingsonfolktale. ColinHarrisandhisdeputyOliverHouseintheModernManu- scriptsReadingRoomoftheBodleianLibraryhavegivenusexpert andtirelesssupportthroughtheprocessofinspectingandtranscri- bing the manuscripts in the Collingwood Papers archive. We are gratefultoNaomivanLoo,oftheMcGowinLibraryatPembroke College, to Mr Robin Darwall-Smith, archivist of University College, and to Dr James Connelly of Southampton Institute whosharedwithushisnotesonCollingwood’slibraryandgener- ouslyassistedinlocatingreportsofCollingwood’slecturesonJane Austen. We would like to thank Marnie Hughes Warrington for her initial work on producing an electronic copy of the folktale manuscript,thiskindlyfundedbyWilliamRieckmann.AtCardiff University Lisa Berni has been extremely generous in devoting timetofurtheringtheproject,forwhichweareagainverygrateful. WeshouldliketothankstaffoftheBritish Library,WillRyanof the Warburg Institute, Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Soci- ety, and Caroline Oates, Librarian of the Folklore Society, for acknowledgements viii assistance in locating material. Staff of the Oxford University Press Archives gave us valuable support, and we are in debt to Dr Kathleen Taylor and Dr Gillian Wright for helping with the interpretationofCollingwood’shandwrittenGreek. Forpermissiontoadapt,aspartofourIntroductionandappar- atus,somematerialpreviouslypublishedinessayform,weshould like to thank the editors of Collingwood Studies. Dr Peter Rivie`re kindlycommentedonouraccountofanthropologyinthe1930s. The hospitality and intellectual stimulation of the Visiting ScholarshipschemeatStJohn’sCollege,Oxford—ofwhichPhilip Smallwoodwasabeneficiaryinthesummervacationof2003—has helpedusgreatlyinbringingoureditorialworktoaconclusion.All three editors have been given sterling support by family over the longgestationofthisproject. Finally we should like to thank Peter Momtchiloff of Oxford UniversityPressforhisreceptivenesstothepublicationofmanu- script material by Collingwood and for his encouragement and advice at every stage. The detailed and expert guidance of the anonymous readers for the Press has proved indispensable in waystoonumeroustomention. January2005 contents Abbreviations xi Editors’ForewordandNote xiii Editors’Introduction xxiii 1. TheRe-EnactmentofSelf:Perspectivesfrom Literature,Criticism,andCulture PhilipSmallwood xxiii 2. AFieldworker’sPhilosopher:Perspectivesfrom Anthropology WendyJames lvi 3. InDefenceofCollingwood:Perspectivesfrom PhilosophyandtheHistoryofIdeas DavidBoucher xcii Part I ART AND CULTURE 1 WordsandTune 3 ObservationsonLanguage 18 JaneAusten(1921) 21 JaneAusten(?1934) 34 ThePhilosophyofArt 49 AestheticTheoryandArtisticPractice 81 Part II TALES OF ENCHANTMENT 113 1. FairyTales 115 2. ThreeMethodsofApproach:Philological, Functional,Psychological 132 3. TheHistoricalMethod 178 4. Magic 195
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