Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala
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Act III
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Baltic Finnic
Baltic Finnic Lyric
Book Iii
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comparative oral literature
Ei Ole
Epic Songs
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Finnish Folk
Flax Seed
Folk Poems
Folk Poetry
gender roles in folklore
Golden Apple
Ingria
Karelian Tradition
Knee Wound
Line Pair
Lyric Genre
Lyric Songs
narrative transformation theory
nineteenth-century epic formation
oral tradition analysis
romantic era epic construction
romantic nationalism studies
Sailing Expedition
Song Tradition
Southern Karelia
Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Wedding Songs
Wife's Trial
Wife’s Trial
Woman's Laugh
Woman’s Laugh
Young Man
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- ISBN 9780815319757
- Weight: 800g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1995
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 have found it difficult at times to judge the relation of the Kalevala to its oral sources. Lonnrot’s meticulous notes and discussions of intent and accomplishment make clear what he changed and how he went about it, but give us less inkling of why. This study's view is that the key to understanding Lonnrot’s changes lies in Romantic aesthetics and in the intellectual and socio-political agendas which they encode. Lonnrot created a Romantic epic out of Baltic-Finnic folk poetry, an epic complete with the narrative, generic, gendered and political characteristics of literary epics in nineteenth century’ Europe.
