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Kalevipoeg Studies — The Creation and Reception of an Epic
Hasselblatt, Cornelius
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
43,00 € (39,09 € vat 0 %)

This is the first English-language monograph on the poem Kalevipoeg (1857-1861), composed by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803-1882). The poem is over 19,000 lines long, and is known today as the Estonian national epic...

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Tradition through Modernity — Postmodernism and the Nation-State in Folklore Scholarship
Anttonen, Pertti J.
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2005
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In their study of social practices deemed traditional, scholars tend to use the concept and idea of tradition as an element of meaning in the practices under investigation. But just whose meaning is it? Is it a meaning generated by those who study tradition...

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Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song
Sykäri, Venla; Fabb, Nigel
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2022
45,00 € (40,91 € vat 0 %)

This interdisciplinary collection explores the forms and aesthetics of rhyme in a variety of languages and from a variety of perspectives. A wide-ranging introduction that ends with a list and associated bibliography of rhyming traditions of the world is followed by thirteen chapters...

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Peasants, Pilgrims, and Sacred Promises — Ritual and the Supernatural in Orthodox Karelian Folk Religion
Stark, Laura
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2002
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Lying on the border between eastern and western Christendom, Orthodox Karelia preserved its unique religious culture into the 19th and 20th centuries, when it was described and recorded by Finnish and Karelian folklore collectors...

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Myth and Mentality
Siikala, Anna-Leena
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2019
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The recent fascination in Finnish folklore studies with popular thought and the values and emotions encoded in oral tradition began with the realisation that the vast collections of the Finnish folklore archives still have much to offer the modern-day researcher...

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Oral Tradition and Book Culture
Anttonen, Pertti; Forselles, Cecilia af; Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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A new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and book culture. In addition to the use and dissemination of printed books, newspapers etc., book culture denotes manuscript media and the circulation of written...

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Storied and Supernatural Places — Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas
Valk, Ülo; Sävborg, Daniel
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2018
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This collection of articles addresses the narrative construction of places, landscapes and their supernatural dimensions, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, and the spatial conditions for encounters with the supernatural...

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Genre -Text - Interpretation — Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Folklore and Beyond
Koski, Kaarina; Savolainen, Ulla; Frog, Mr
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2016
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This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, their roles in cultural discourse, how they change, and their relations to each other...

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Riddles — Perspektives on the use, function andchange in a folklore genre
Kaivola-Bergenhöj, Annikki
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2001
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Riddles are a journey into a fascinating world rich in delightful metaphors and ambiguity. This book is based on material drawn from all over the world and analyses both traditional true riddles and contemporary joking questions...

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Mythic Discourses — Studies in Uralic Traditions
Frog; Siikala, Anna-Leena; Stepanova, Eila
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2012
48,00 € (43,64 € vat 0 %)

Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations...

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Hidden Rituals and Public Performances — Traditions and Belonging among the Post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts
Siikala, Anna-Leena; Oleg, Ulyashev
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions...

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Words as Events — Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition
Sykäri, Venla
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2011
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Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they...

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The Irish Folklore Commission 1935-1970 — History, ideology, methodology
Briody, Mícheál
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2007
32,00 € (29,09 € vat 0 %)

Between 1935 and 1970 the Irish Folklore Commission (Coimisiun Bealoideasa Eireann), under-funded and at great personal cost to its staff, assembled one of the world's largest folklore collections. The cultural, linguistic, political and ideological factors...

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Narrating, Doing, Experiencing — Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives
Kaivola-Bregenhoj, Annikki; Klein, Barbro; Palmenfelt, Ulf
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 2006
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How do people tell of experiences, things and events that mean a lot to them and are unforgettable? Eight Nordic folklorists here examine personal experience stories and the way they are narrated in an attempt to gain an understanding of the people behind...

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