Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""List of Authors""; ""Prologue""; ""The Kalevala and the Worldâ€?s Epics: An Introduction""; ""Models""; ""The Homeric Epics and Greek Cultural Identity""; ""Virgilâ€?s Aeneid as Homeric, National and Universal Epic""; ""The Old Norse Analogue: Eddic Poetry and Fornaldarsaga""; ""Kalevala and Nibelungenlied: The Problem of Oral and Written Composition""; ""Macphersonâ€?s Ossian: Ballad Origins and Epic Ambitions""; ""Epic Cycles as the Basis for the Kalevala""; ""The Kalevala as Epic""; ""The Kalevala: The Processual View""; ""The Reception of the Kalevala and Its Impact on the Arts""
  • ""Points of Comparison""""Europe""; ""The Kalevala and the Epic Traditions of Europe""; ""The Kalevala and Kalevipoeg""; ""Russian and Finnish Epic Songs""; ""The VÃ?inÃ?möinen Poems and the South Slavic Oral Epos""; ""Epics of the Eastern Uralic Peoples""; ""Frederic Mistralâ€?s Poem Mireille and ProvenÃal Identity""; ""Africa""; ""Is Epic Oral or Written?""; ""Identity and Epics: African Examples""; ""Arabic Folk Epics""; ""Asia""; ""The Iranian Book of Kings: A Comparativistic View""; ""Motif Correspondences between Mongolian Epics and the Kalevala""
  • ""The Singers of the King Gesar Epic""""The Life and History of the Epic King Gesar in Ladakh""; ""Epics in China""; ""The Yukar of the Ainu and Its Historical Background""; ""Epilogue""; ""The Role of Mythologism, Past and Present""; ""The Kalevala: Problems of Interpretation and Identity""; ""Index of Names""; ""Index of Epics and Epic Heroes""