Russian Epic Studies

232 Pages·1949·13.327 MB·English

by  Roman Jakobson, Ernest J. Simmons

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MEMOIRS OF THE
AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
VOLUME
42
1947
COPYRIGHT BY
1949
THE AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
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RUSSIAN EPIC STUDIES
Edited by
ROMAN JAKOBSON
and
ERNEST SIMMONS
J.
PHILADELPHIA
AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY
1949
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The publication of RUSSIAN EPIC STUDIES has been
generously supported by the Humanities Fund and by the
Committee for the Promotion of Advanced Slavic Cultural
Studies.
EDITORS
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction by Ernest J. Simmons (Columbia University) _ 7
The Vseslav Epos by Roman Jakobson (Harvard University) and
Marc Szeftel (Cornell University) _ _ 13
Classical Influenceon the SLOVO by Clarence A. Manning (Colum-
bia University) _ „ 87
Scandinavian Influence on the SLOVO? by Margaret Schlauch
(New York University) _...._ 99
On Alliteration in Ancient Russian Epic Literature by Dmitry
cizevsky (Harvard University) _ _ _ 125
Le Digenis russe par Henri Gregoire (Universite Libre de
Bruxelles) _ _ ....._ _ _ _ 131
The First Polish Translation of the SLOVO by Manfred Kridl
(Columbia University) _ _ _ - 171
Rainer Maria Rilke's Translation of the SLOVO with Introduction
and Notes by Andre von Gronicka (Columbia University) 179
The SLOVO in English by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (New York Public
Library) - 203
Transliteration Table _ - - 224
List of Abbreviations - - 224