11th ISFNR Congress, Mysore, January 6-12, 1995
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.
(FFN 9, November 1994: 8)