Contents of FF Network
9
(November 1994)
- The Road to Mysore by Lauri Honko
- Towards the Nightless Night by Pekka Hakamies and Sinikka Vakimo
- Folklore Fellows in Oral Epics by Lauri Honko
- Panel on Oral and Semiliterary Epics
Other related topics
- Teachings of the Silk-Road Epics: A Workshop in Turku
- Oral and Semiliterary Epics: A Panel in Mysore
- The Elusive Oral Text: FFOE focuses on textualization
- The quest for oral text: the third wave?
- Textualization of oral epics. A Conference for Folklore Fellows in Oral Epics
- Comparing the Textualization of Oral Epics
- Epic scholars in Bonn
11th ISFNR Congress, Mysore, January 6-12, 1995
(FFN 9, November 1994: 8)
Each session lasts one hour. Each speaker has 15 mins for the oral presentation of an abridgement of or commentaries on the full paper. Each session ends with 15 mins discussion where all panelists are present. In the last session the discussion may extend on topics of a more general nature such as the tasks in fieldwork and comparative research on oral epics.
Session 1 (Saturday, January 7th,
15-16)
Minna Skafte Jensen: A. B.
Lord's Concept of Transitional Texts
John M. Foley: The Rhetorical
Persistence of Traditional Forms in Oral Epic Texts
Heda Jason: Indian Epic Tradition:
Is It Part of a Wider Euro-Asian Tradition?
Session 2 (Saturday, January 7th,
16.15-17.15)
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
Aditya Malik: The Oral Epic
of Devnarayan: Reflections on Folk Narrative and Folk Religion in Rajasthan
Session 3 (Tuesday, January 10th,
15-16)
Lauri Honko & Anneli Honko:
Multiforms
in Epic Composition
K. Chinnappa Gowda: A Comparative
Study of the Dictated and Taped Versions of the Siri Epic
Anneli Honko & Lauri Honko:
Multiforms
in Three Contexts (videofilm)
Session 4 (Tuesday, January 10th,
16.15-17.15)
Heidrun Brückner: Problems
of Subgenre Distinction in the Tulu Paaddanas
B.A. Viveka Rai: Adaptation
and Decline in Tulu Oral Epics
Peter J. Claus: A Folk View
of Variation in the Tulu Paaddana Tradition
Session 5 (Wednesday, January
11th, 15-16)
Susan S. Wadley: Creating
a Modern Epic: Oral and Written Versions of the Hindi Epic Dholaa
Jia Zhi: On Oral and Half
Literary Epics
Isaac Olawale Albert: "Alaro
Ataoja Osogbo": The Palace Historian, His Craft and Training Process in
a Yoruba Homeland
Session 6 (Wednesday, January
11th, 16.15-18.00)
Doris Edel: Mental Text,
Landscape, Politics and Written Codification: the Irish Epic Táin
Bó Cúailnge
Lauri Harvilahti: The Poetic
"I" as an Allegory of Life in Lyric Epics
Hazel J. Wrigglesworth: The
Function of Rhetorical Devices in the Tulelangan Oral Epic of the Ilianen
Manobo
Kirsten Thisted: The Collection
of Greenlandic Traditions - Oral and Semiliterary
Concluding discussion. Chair: Lauri Honko.