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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Alhoniemi, Pirkko,; Bynum, David Ε.,; Domokos, Péter,; Fromm, Hans,; Galley, Micheline,; Heissig, Walther,; Herrmann, Silke,; Honko, Lauri,; Jensen, Minna Skafte,; Karhu, Eino,; Kaukonen, Vāinō,; Knappert, Jan,; Kuusi, Matti,; Laugaste, Eduard,; Lönnroth, Lars,; Obayashi, Taryo,; Oinas, Felix J.,; Oksala, Teivas,; Puhvel, Jaan,; Schenda, Rudolf,; Seydou, Christiane,; Thomson, Derick,; Voigt, Vilmos,; Zhi, Jia,; rgyal-mtsho, \x27Jam-dpal,
• HerausgeberIn: Honko, Lauri,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society , 30
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (587 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110874556; 9783110638110
• ISSN: 1437-5370
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110874556
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lauri Honko.