TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alhoniemi,Pirkko
AU  - Bynum,David Ε.
AU  - Domokos,Péter
AU  - Fromm,Hans
AU  - Galley,Micheline
AU  - Heissig,Walther
AU  - Herrmann,Silke
AU  - Honko,Lauri
AU  - Jensen,Minna Skafte
AU  - Karhu,Eino
AU  - Kaukonen,Vāinō
AU  - Knappert,Jan
AU  - Kuusi,Matti
AU  - Laugaste,Eduard
AU  - Lönnroth,Lars
AU  - Obayashi,Taryo
AU  - Oinas,Felix J.
AU  - Oksala,Teivas
AU  - Puhvel,Jaan
AU  - Schenda,Rudolf
AU  - Seydou,Christiane
AU  - Thomson,Derick
AU  - Voigt,Vilmos
AU  - Zhi,Jia
AU  - rgyal-mtsho,\x27Jam-dpal
TI  - Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics: The Kalevala and its Predecessors 
T2  - Religion and Society ,
SN  - 9783110122534
AV  - PN1303 .R4 1990eb
U1  - 809.1/32 22
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Epic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Folklore in literature
KW  - Myth in literature
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
KW  - Epos
KW  - Lönnrot, Elias / Kalevala
KW  - Mythos
KW  - RELIGION / Religion & Science
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110874556
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110874556
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110874556/original
ER  -