344 Pages
by
Routledge
342 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since its initial publication in the early nineteenth century, Elias Lonnrot’s Finnish epic Kalevala has attracted international interest and scholarship. However, the author comments that the distorting lenses of translation, cultural difference and historical distance, have rendered the work a cryptic and often misinterpreted text outside of its country of origin. Even within Finland, scholars... Read more
Preface, 1. Laulut suuret lapsillensa (“Great songs for his children”): The Dual Heirs to the Folk Poetry Tradition, 2. Neitsy Maaria emonen (“Virgin Mary little mother”): Pattern and Persistence in the Nativity Songs of Arhippa Perttunen, 3. Maijatta, korea kuopus (“Maijatta, comely youngest child”): Lonnrot’s Version of the Nativity (Poem 50), 4. Vesti laijat laivaksi (“He carved planks into a ship”): Artistic Shaping Over Time in the Folk Poems of Luka Tarasov, 5. Kalevalasta opittu (“Learned from the Kalevala”): Folk Appropriations of Lonnrot’s Epic, 6. Alahall on allin mieli (“Downcast is the duck’s spirit”): The Conversational Aesthetic of Larin Paraske and Ingrian Lyric Poetry, 7. Elkame unohtako kakeaf (“Let us not forget the cuckoo!”): Lyric Stasis and Epic Progress in the Kalevala, Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Thomas A. DuBois
