Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics : : The Kalevala and its Predecessors / / ed. by Lauri Honko.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 1990 - 1999 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Reprint 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Religion and Society ,
30 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (587 p.) |
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Table of 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