Forthcoming in the FFC

FF Communications No. 278 — publication date: December 2001 Moral Fictions. Tamil Folktales from Oral Tradition by Stuart Blackburn Is fantasy the defining element in fairy tales? This question is the starting point for Stuart Blackburn’s study of Tamil oral tales....

New volumes of the FF Communications

FFC No. 276 ÜLO VALK: The Black Gentleman: Manifestations of the Devil in Estonian Folk Religion. 217 pp. 2001. FFC No. 277 JOHN MINTON and DAVID EVANS: “The Coon in the Box”: A Global Folktale in African-American Context. 112 pp....

Reviews

FFC 274: Le style et les formules dans les contes oraux du Maghreb (par Micheline Galley & Camille Lacoste Dujardin) FFC 275: “Like father, like daughter” – a joint paremiological accomplishment (by Wolfgang Mieder) Other reviews: Multiformity of...
Kalevalaic poetry as a digital corpus

Kalevalaic poetry as a digital corpus

by Jukka Saarinen, the Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki The Kalevala, the epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot, is based on the ancient Baltic-Finnic poetry in the trochaic tetrameter subsequently known in Finland as Kalevalaic poetry. It is not, however, a single genre...

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