Felix Oinas (115 results)

Condition: Good. New edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Rubbing, curling to corners, bumping, tiny specking on edges, text block clear and binding good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Printing. First printing. Edge wear, sticker remains on rear cover, page ridges foxed, ink name on half-title page. 1978 Trade Paperback. viii, 373 pp. Includes fifteen essays, each written by an authority on one of the major epic traditions. Discussed in detail are the Iliad and the Odyssey, Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata and Ramayana (the great Sanskrit epics), as well as the Iranian Shahnama and its successors, Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, the Icelandic sagas, the Irish sagas, the Song of Roland and other Old French chansons de geste, the Spanish epics including the Cid, the Russian byliny and Serbocroatian epic songs, the Kalevala and the Kalevigpoeg. Of special interest are the discussions of the Turkic and African epic traditions.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Indiana University Press, 1978. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good. Spotting along page ends. Covers have shelf wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. Clean and tight. One crease along the spine. Very little shelfwear. Much better than the stock photo. 373 pages. The sine is sunned. A Midland Book MB-211. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Comparative Literature.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: wraps. First Edition. This is a good unmarked first edition, trade paperback copy, red spine.

PAPERBACK. First edition. 221pp 8vo paperback. Research Cen. in Anthro. Folklore & Linguistics pub 14 in the International Journal of American Linguistics, Part II, Volume 26 Number 4, October 1960. cover wear otherwise very good-.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Language Teaching Today: International Journal of American Linguistics, V26, No. 4, Part 2, October, 1960. Book.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

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257 pp., notes and sources per essay. Includes: American Folksongs and Left-Wing Politics 1935-56, by Richard Reuss; The Study of Ethnicity in Modern European Ethnology, by Linda Degh; The Political Uses and Themes of Folklore in the Soviet Union, by Felix J. Oinas; Folklore Politics in the Ukraine, by Robert B. Klymasz; Folklore, Nationality, and the Twentieth Century in Siberia and the Soviet Far East, by Robert Austerlitz; The Use of Folklore in Nationalist Movements and Liberation Struggles: A Case Study of Bangladesh, by Abu Saeed Zahural Haque; National Characteristics of Japanese Folktales, by Richard M. Dorson; Folklore and Nationalism in Modern China, by Sandra Eminov, etc. Trade paperback. Light shelfwear, former owner's name. Very good. …

Hardcover. Condition: Clean & Unmarked. Missing. Some sticker residue on front cover. Otherwise a very nice, clean & straight copy. No dust-jacket. 373 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Tight binding, gently rubbed dark blue wraps with white lettering to front and to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Volume 54, Uralic and Altaic Series.

Helsinki; Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, 1962. 25x16,5 cm. 377-397 pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled, with a paper strip on spine. The staples are a little rusty, and the wrappers slightly faded. A fine copy. The author treats the ballad "The Maiden of Kaloniemi", or "Kaloniemen neiti", or "Inkeri". Inscribed by the author on front wrapper to Professor Edgar Kantile.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY hardback, no dustjacket, published by Mouton, 1975. 341pp. Usual library marks, minor damage to back cover, light tanning to pages. Good. book.

6" x 8.25" pp. 218. Brown paper wrappers are slightly scuffed at the corners and edges of spine. Text is crisp and sound. Very good. A compilation of folktales and legends from Finnish, Estonian, and Karelian cultures.

Edited by the Fellows of the Folklore Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. This issue contains contributions from the Yugoslav-American Folklore Seminar and focuses on four topics: concepts of folklore in Yugoslavia and the US; national and ethnic aspects of folklore; the hero; foklore and literature (see the second photo for the table of contents). /// Paperback, 204 pp., 8° (15 x 23 cm), cover slightly worn, yellowed and dusty, several pages slightly tanned, condition: good Book Language/s: English. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Text in English. 218 pp. Minor glue residue from old price tag on the rear cover. This collection proposes to make Finnish or Balto-Finnic folklore better known in English-speaking countries. Contents Finnic folklore The Finnic epics On the structure of the epic Kalevipoeg Negative parallelism in Karelian-Finnish folklore Gesture and ballads The Sower (Sämpsä Pellervoinen's song) Lemminkäinen and Vavilo Antero Vipunen The gigantic bird of Finnish folklore Väinämöinen's straw stallion F. R. Faehlmann's myth "Dawn and Dusk" Jumi - a fertility divinity Finnish-Karelian Äkräs Ingrian Kirlouks "Water Spirit".…

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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Second Revised Edition; First Printing. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, 1972. 2nd revised edition. First publication: 1964. Xii + [380] pp. Crease in front cover by spine, light foxing atop text block. Pages clean, white, free of markings, underlining, and notations. Tight binding as though unread.; Uralic and Altaic Languages; 34; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 392 pages.…

Condition: Gut. Format ca. DIN A 4, X/398 S., brosch., Einband gering bestossen, gering fleckig, innen minimal fleckig, sonst gut! Sehr selten! (Indianer University Publications, Volume 54).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 183 (9). Cream card wraps/pb with blue lettering at front and spine. Includes 1 black and white illustration.ISBN: 0893571482 Shows some slight shelfwear, spine very lightly sunned, else content clean and unread. VG+.

Paperback. Condition: Gut. VIII, 373 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht bestoßen und Randläsuren, außerdem leicht berieben, Buchrücken ausgeblichen, Buch weist leichte Knicke auf / lightly scuffed and edgewear, also lightly rubbed, spine faded, book has light creases. - CONTENTS Preface Introduction I Richard M. Dorson I. The Homeric Epics and Oral Poetry I Wm. F. Hansen 2. Mesopotamian Epic Literature I Johannes M. Renger 3. The Sanskrit Epics I Barend A. van Nooten 4. The Iranian Epics I William L. Hanaway, Jr. 5. Beowulf: A Contextual Introduction to Its Contents and Techniques I Alain Renoir 6. The Nibelungenlied as Heroic Epic I Stephen L. Wailes 7. The Icelandic Sagas / Theodore M. Andersson 8. Irish Saga Literature I Sean O Coileäin 9. The French Chansons de Geste / Gerard J. Brault 10. The Spanish Epic I Merle E. Simmons 11. Russian Byliny I Felix J. Oinas 12. Serbocroatian Heroic Songs I Mary P. Coote 13. The Balto-Finnic Epics I Felix J. Oinas 14. The Epic Tradition among Turkic Peoples I Ilhan Bagöz 15. The African Heroic Epic I Daniel P. Biebuyck Index. ISBN 9780253202116 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383.…

Soft cover. Large 8vo. pp 218. Paperback. Original publisher's illustrated covers, lettered black. ISBN: 9517173156 Very good plus. Excellent condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. OINAS, FELIX J. Studies in Finnic - Slavic folklore relations. Selected papers. Edited by Lauri Honko. (FF Communications no: 205). Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1991. Large 8vo., 214 p., 1 b/w map. Paperback. Dust wrapper. Fine ISBN: 9514106474 CATALOG: Literature KEYWORDS: Finland Folklore. …