| Russian Folk Belief Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ivanits, Linda J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873328892 ISBN-13: 9780873328890 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1992 Annotation: "Fascinating ... a valuable introduction to the Russian version of a very important topic". -- The New York Times Book Review |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 398.094 |
| LCCN: 87032067 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A scholarly work that aims to be both broad enough in scope to satisfy upper-division undergraduates studying folk belief and narrative and detailed enough to meet the needs of graduate students in the field. Each of the seven chapters in Part 1 focuses on one aspect of Russian folk belief, such as the pagan background, Christian personages, devils and various other logical categories of the topic. The author's thesis - that Russian folk belief represents a double faith whereby Slavic pagan beliefs are overlaid with popular Christianity - is persuasive and has analogies in other cultures. The folk narratives constituting Part 2 are translated and include a wide range of tales, from the briefly anecdotal to the more fully developed narrative, covering the various folk personages and motifs explored in Part 1. |