Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala (New Perspectives in Folklore),New

Finnish Folk Poetry and the Kalevala (New Perspectives in Folklore),New

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Since its initial publication in the early nineteenth century, Elias Lonnrots Finnish epic Kalevala has attracted international interest and scholarship. However, the author comments that the distorting lenses of translation, cultural difference and historical distance, have rendered the work a cryptic and often misinterpreted text outside of its country of origin. Even within Finland, scholars have found it difficult at times to judge the relation of the Kalevala to its oral sources. Lonnrots meticulous notes and discussions of intent and accomplishment make clear what he changed and how he went about it, but give us less inkling of why. This study's view is that the key to understanding Lonnrots changes lies in Romantic aesthetics and in the intellectual and sociopolitical agendas which they encode. Lonnrot created a Romantic epic out of BalticFinnic folk poetry, an epic complete with the narrative, generic, gendered and political characteristics of literary epics in nineteenth century Europe.

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