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Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics
The Kalevala and its Predecessors
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Estudios bĂblicosTable of contents
- List of Authors
- Prologue
- The Kalevala and the Worldâs Epics: An Introduction
- Models
- The Homeric Epics and Greek Cultural Identity
- Virgilâs 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
- Macphersonâs Ossian: Ballad Origins and Epic Ambitions
- 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 VÀinÀmöinen Poems and the South Slavic Oral Epos
- Epics of the Eastern Uralic Peoples
- Frederic Mistralâs Poem Mireille and Provençal Identity
- Africa
- Is Epic Oral or Written?
- Identity and Epics: African Examples
- Arabic Folk Epics
- 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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