Honko Lauri Editor (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. ISBN: 9027977828 Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, orange cloth over boards, 632 pages. Text clean, bright, unamrked. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket protected in new mylar wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sorry, No international shipping on this item.Ex-library hardcover no dj (orange boards) in very nice condition with the usual library markings and attachments. Except for library markings, interior clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Condition: Very Good. Unmarked. Includes "The Kalevala Abroad--East and West" by Lauri Honko, "The Kalevala in Paris, Reykjavik, and Copenhagen" by Carsten Bregenhoj, "Folklore Moves with the People" by Lauri Honko and more. Illustrated. 20p.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Eds. 1975, 1986,87,88,89. 7 separate issues including 1986 complete.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 675 pp., bibliography, index. "Thick corpus", "organic variation" and "textuality" are new keywords in folklore theory. They signal a shift of paradigm between the intercultural and intracultural study of variation. The message is that only the latter is capable of disclosing the real variation of folklore in a living culture and of penetrating the processing of meaning in performance. Where the earlier comparative method wordes with a bird's eye view on the "variation" of individual folktales, ballads, proverbs, etc., trying to design the history of the origin and dissemination of an oral product, the modern scholar focuses on intensive fieldwork on living systems of tradition, trying to created thick corpora of material reflecting the organic variation of folklore in context. Organic variation is the main characteristic which distinguishes oral from literary culture. One consequence of this line of study is repetitive collection and dialogue with the performers. Not surprisingly, this is the way toward understanding the immanent textuality of oral tradition. Without the sequentiality and cohesion formulated in one brain the bits and pieces plucked from the pool of tradition will soon prove worthless and devoid of their actual meaning. This awareness will also enable scholars to reread archival and other sources derived from early collectors with a new sensitivity.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 668 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.