Principles for Oral Narrative Research

ISBN-13: 9780253341754 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 244 str.

Axel Olrik

Opis

-... Wolf and Jensen's English translation of the entire book puts the famous laws into a very useful perspective... - -Choice-... it is full of clever ideas and observations, and alive with the personality of the writer-lucid, astute and fair.- -British Folklore Studies ForumOlrik's Grundsaetninger sets forth a number of the basic principles for the study of folklore and outlines his -epic laws- of oral narrative. With this long-awaited translation, English readers now have available the -rules- which became the foundation of many folklore programs and the basis for the study of folk narrative.