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Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics : The Kalevala and its Predecessors / ed. by Lauri Honko.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 30Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2011]Copyright date: ©1990Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (587 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110122534
  • 9783110874556
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.1/32 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1303 .R4 1990eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-X -- Prologue -- The Kalevala and the World's Epics: An Introduction -- Models -- The Homeric Epics and Greek Cultural Identity -- Virgil's Aeneid as Homeric, National and Universal Epic -- The Old Norse Analogue: Eddic Poetry and Fornaldarsaga -- Kalevala and Nibelungenlied: The Problem of Oral and Written Composition -- Macpherson's Ossian: Ballad Origins and Epic Ambitions -- Result -- Epic Cycles as the Basis for the Kalevala -- The Kalevala as Epic -- The Kalevala: The Processual View -- The Reception of the Kalevala and Its Impact on the Arts -- Points of Comparison Europe -- The Kalevala and the Epic Traditions of Europe -- The Kalevala and Kalevipoeg -- Russian and Finnish Epic Songs -- The Väinämöinen Poems and the South Slavic Oral Epos -- Epics of the Eastern Uralic Peoples -- Frédéric Mistral's Poem Mireille and Provençal Identity -- Points of Comparison Africa -- Is Epic Oral or Written? -- Identity and Epics: African Examples -- Arabic Folk Epics -- Points of Comparison Asia -- The Iranian Book of Kings: A Comparativistic View -- Motif Correspondences between Mongolian Epics and the Kalevala -- The Singers of the King Gesar Epic -- The Life and History of the Epic King Gesar in Ladakh -- Epics in China -- The Yukar of the Ainu and Its Historical Background -- Epilogue -- The Role of Mythologism, Past and Present -- The Kalevala: Problems of Interpretation and Identity -- Index of Names -- Index of Epics and Epic Heroes
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I-X -- Prologue -- The Kalevala and the World's Epics: An Introduction -- Models -- The Homeric Epics and Greek Cultural Identity -- Virgil's Aeneid as Homeric, National and Universal Epic -- The Old Norse Analogue: Eddic Poetry and Fornaldarsaga -- Kalevala and Nibelungenlied: The Problem of Oral and Written Composition -- Macpherson's Ossian: Ballad Origins and Epic Ambitions -- Result -- Epic Cycles as the Basis for the Kalevala -- The Kalevala as Epic -- The Kalevala: The Processual View -- The Reception of the Kalevala and Its Impact on the Arts -- Points of Comparison Europe -- The Kalevala and the Epic Traditions of Europe -- The Kalevala and Kalevipoeg -- Russian and Finnish Epic Songs -- The Väinämöinen Poems and the South Slavic Oral Epos -- Epics of the Eastern Uralic Peoples -- Frédéric Mistral's Poem Mireille and Provençal Identity -- Points of Comparison Africa -- Is Epic Oral or Written? -- Identity and Epics: African Examples -- Arabic Folk Epics -- Points of Comparison Asia -- The Iranian Book of Kings: A Comparativistic View -- Motif Correspondences between Mongolian Epics and the Kalevala -- The Singers of the King Gesar Epic -- The Life and History of the Epic King Gesar in Ladakh -- Epics in China -- The Yukar of the Ainu and Its Historical Background -- Epilogue -- The Role of Mythologism, Past and Present -- The Kalevala: Problems of Interpretation and Identity -- Index of Names -- Index of Epics and Epic Heroes

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