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Long, Long Tales from the Russian North /

This volume of folktales from the Far North of European Russia features seventeen works by five narrators of the Russian tale, all recorded in the twentieth century. The tales, distinguished by their extraordinary length and by the manner in which they were commonly told, appear to have flourished o...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Haney, Jack V., 1940-2015 (Translator, Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Ruso
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:This volume of folktales from the Far North of European Russia features seventeen works by five narrators of the Russian tale, all recorded in the twentieth century. The tales, distinguished by their extraordinary length and by the manner in which they were commonly told, appear to have flourished only in the twentieth century and only in Russian Karelia. Although the tales are easily recognized as wondertales, or fairy tales, their treatment of the traditional matter is anything but usual. In these tales, one encounters such topics as regicide, matricide, patricide, fratricide, premarital relations between the sexes and more, all related in the typical manner of the Russian folktale.
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781621039235