Who are the epic-makers?

A symposium commemorating the bicentennial of Elias Lönnrot’s birth, November 1–3, 2002 at the Kalevala Institute, University of Turku by Lauri Honko, Director, Kalevala Institute, University of Turku Authorship is no problem in the case of a literary epic. The writer...

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...

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