Directory of Epic Resources

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This category is for oral and semiliterary epics. For literary epics, see Arts/Literature/Poetry/Forms/Epic_and_Narrative/. An epic or epos is a long poem or cycle of poems narrating the deeds of heroes, or a nation's history.

Subcategories

• Kalevala
• Manas
• Nart

Resources in This Category

• Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule

  http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/paksoy-1/
  History and politics of the Central Asian epic Alpamysh.

• The Archaic Epic and Its Relationship to Ritual

  http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/novik9.htm
  Article by E. S. Novik discussing the relationships between rituals and folklore texts.

• The Mechanisms of Epic Plot and the Mongolian Geseriad

  http://www.ruthenia.ru/folklore/neckludov11.htm
  Article by S. Ju. Nekludov discussing changes in the plot of the Geser epic by comparing variant versions.

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