Heroic Epic and Saga: An Introduction and Handbook to the World's Great Folk Epics

by Oinas, Felix J. (editor)

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Book Description

Bloomington, IN, U.S.A: Indiana University Press, 1979. Trade Paperback. Very Good. These essays, each written by an authority on one of the major epic traditions, address the question of the relation of the oral performance to the written text; the works discussed in detail include the Iliad and the Odyssey, Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Iranian Shahnama and its successors, Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, the Icelandic sagas, the Irish sagas, the Song of Roland and other French epics, the Cid and other Spanish epics, the Russian and South Slavic epics, the Kalevala and the Kalevipoeg, and the Turkic and African epic traditions; includes an introduction by Richard Dorson (orange & yellow cover have slight creases and edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)

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