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.)

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