Oral Tradition Volume 11, Number 1March 1996
Table of Contents
Editor's Column |
Introduction Epics along the Silk Roads: Mental Texts, Performance, and Written Codification by Lauri Honko |
Epic and Identity: National, Regional, Communal, Individual by Lauri Honko |
Epos and National Identity: Transformations and Incarnations by Lauri Harvilahti |
Transformations of Epic Time and Space: Creating the World’s Creation in Kalevala-metric Poetry by Lotte Tarkka |
The Present State of the Mongolian Epic and Some Topics for Future Research by Walter Heissig |
G.J. Ramstedt as a Recorder of Khalkha Epics by Harry Halén |
Kudaman: An Oral Epic in the Palawan Highlands by Nicole Revel |
The Mechanisms of Epic Plot and the Mongolian Geseriad by S. Ju. Nekljudov |
From Classical to Postclassical: Changing Ideologies and Changing Epics in India by Petteri Koskikallio |
Caucasian Epics: Textualist Principles in Publishing by Alla Alieva |
Epics in the Oral Genre System of Tulunadu by B.A. Viveka Rai |
About the Authors |