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...traditional epics, she is very soon enveloped in rhetoric quite rare elsewhere in folk-literary scholarship. Not only do epic scholars proudly proclaim the elitism of their object of research, but they also imply that the research of epics is an elite branch among the varieties of folk-literary study Most of them situate their research across the boundary of literature and oral tradition. Their study is thus most pertinent to all who want to critically examine the constructed dimension of the category of folk literature in general, and specifically oral literature.
One need only read a few stanzas or lines of any piece of epic poetry to sense the poetic refinement and skill invested in the creation of epic poetry Only seldom does one encounter that level of sophistication in folk prose, and then only in specific forms of the folktale that tend to straddle the written-oral divide. I am reminded of a discussion I had with the late editor of this volume, Lauri Honko, after we had been listening to a brilliant paper on...
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