Contents of FF Network 17
- Turku welcomes FFSS in August 1999
- The Kalevala and the World's Traditional Epics
- The Kalevala - the Finnish national epic with worldwide influence
- I. K. Inha in the Kalevala song country
- Papers of the FFOE Panel on Oral and Semiliterary Epics in Mysore 1995
- FFC 239 by Holbek available again
Other related topics
(FFN 17, June 1999: 12)
The scholarly network "Folklore Fellows
in Oral Epics" organised a panel as part of the 11th Congress of the International
Society for Folk-Narrative Research held in Mysore in January 1995 (see
report in FF Network
10). A selection of the papers presented at the six sessions of the
panel has been published by the Central Institute of Indian Languages,
address: Manasagangotri, Mysore 570 006, Karnataka, lndia. The price is
USD 30 plus packing and postage. The fax number of the publisher is +91
821 515032.
Honko, Lauri &
Handoo, Jawaharlal & Foley, John Miles (eds.) 1998:
The Epic: Oral
and Written.
Mysore: Central Institute
of Indian Languages. 234 pp.
Contents
LAURI HONKO, Introduction: Oral and Semiliterary Epics
Oral Composition of Epics
LAURI HONKO AND ANNELI HONKO, Multiforms
in Epic Composition
JOHN MILES FOLEY, The Rhetorical
Persistence of Traditional Forms in Oral Epic Texts
MINNA SKAFTE JENSEN, A. B. Lord's
Concept of Transitional Texts in Relation to the Homeric Epics
Epic Traditions in India
HEDA JASON, Indian and Euro-Afro-Asian
Epic Traditions
JOHN BROCKINGTON, Formulaic Expression
in the Ramayana: Evidence for Oral Composition?
MARY BROCKINGTON, The Relationship
of the Ramayana to the Indic Form of "The Two Brothers" and to the Stepmother
Redaction
SUSAN S. WADLEY, Creating a Modern
Epic: Oral and Written Versions of the Hindi Epic Dhola
Epic and History
DORIS EDEL, Mental Text, Landscape,
Politics, and Written Codification: The Irish Epic Táin Bó
Cúailnge
ISAAC OLAWALE ALBERT, "Alaro Ataoja
Osogbo": A Yoruba Palace Historian
Integrating Oral and Written
LAURI HARVILAHTI, The Poetic "I"
as an Allegory of Life
KIRSTEN THISTED, The Collection
of Greenlandic Traditions: Oral and Semiliterary
JIANGBIAN JIACUO, Gesar in Contemporary
Tibetan Society
JIA ZHI, Minstrels: A Golden Key
to Epic Study