Russian Tales of Clever Fools: Complete Russian Folktale: v. 7
Regular price
€235.60
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Jack V. Haney
Aarne-Thompson classification
Author_Jack V. Haney
Baba Yaga
Barn
Category=JBGB
Cheese
Clever Fools
Complete Russian Folktale
cultural anthropology
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
ethnographic research methods
Held
Hopped
Hot
Ill
Laborer
Lived
Millstone
Mistress
Morning
narrative analysis
oral tradition scholarship
Poor
Priest's Wife
Russian folktale narrative structures
Shore
Sky
Slavic folklore studies
Sly
Strongest
Tomorrow
Tsar's Daughter
Wandered
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780765617194
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This is the concluding installment of a splendid multi-volume work that makes available to English readers a rich folktale tradition that has not been easily accessible or well-known in the West. Compared to other European traditions, the East Slavs have an extremely large number of tale types. Using the Aarne-Thompson index to folktale types, and drawing on both archival and written sources dating back to the early sixteenth century, J.V. Haney has assembled and translated examples of the full range of tales. Nearly all of these tales appear here in translation for the first time. The tales in this volume center on the so-called fool, the village simpleton. However, Ivan, the Russian everyman, turns out to have far more sense than his would-be oppressors. The greedy priests and landlords and dim-witted demons who try to take advantage of him are easily outsmarted. In the end it is they who are shown to be the fools as Ivan outwits or outlasts them. In these unequal contests lies the pleasure of the tales.
Jack V. Haney
