Frog
Biographic Data
| ID | 699841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frog |
| FAMILY NAME | Frog |
| SIGNATURE | FROG |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts is a masterful work by an outstanding scholar. This book is a rich resource that I recommend to anyone interested in orality, writing, and how their interaction relates to contemporary ways of thinking about “texts” in society. It offers the best discussion of “scribal performance” available. The work centers on Homeric poetry, its…
Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority
This paper explores the dynamics of agency, media andauthority in the maintenance and construction of the folk cultural sphere- that is, asociety's generalized perception and understanding of traditional culture. Thephenomenon is explored through a series of cases, organized chronologically, on:medieval manuscript technologies and Snorri Sturluson's Edda; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century written representationsof Sámi; a nineteenth-century liv…
The Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature
The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.). It argues that this verse form emerged as a creolization of the North Germanic alliterative verse form during a period of intensive language contacts, and that the Finnic ethnopoetic ecology made it isosyllabic. Previous theories have focused on the trochaic, tetrametric structure and viewed ot…
Circum-Baltic Mythology? The Strange Case of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATu 1148b)
The myth of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATU 1148b) is found almost exclusively in the Circum-Baltic area. It is found among both Indo-European and Finno-Ugric cultures. This implies that it was adapted from one into the other, unless both assimilated it from a common cultural stratum. This paper surveys this mythological narrative tradition that is found in Baltic, Finnic, Germanic and Sámic cultures. It proposes that the tradition’s per…
Circum-Baltic Mythology? The Strange Case of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATu 1148b)
The myth of the Theft of the Thunder-Instrument (ATU 1148b) is found almost exclusively in the Circum-Baltic area. It is found among both Indo-European and Finno-Ugric cultures. This implies that it was adapted from one into the other, unless both assimilated it from a common cultural stratum. This paper surveys this mythological narrative tradition that is found in Baltic, Finnic, Germanic and Sámic cultures. It proposes that the tradition’s per…
The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.). It argues that this verse form emerged as a creolization of the North Germanic alliterative verse form during a period of intensive language contacts, and that the Finnic ethnopoetic ecology made it isosyllabic. Previous theories have focused on the trochaic, tetrametric structure and viewed ot…
The Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature
Constructing the Folk Cultural Sphere: Agency, Media and Authority
This paper explores the dynamics of agency, media andauthority in the maintenance and construction of the folk cultural sphere- that is, asociety's generalized perception and understanding of traditional culture. Thephenomenon is explored through a series of cases, organized chronologically, on:medieval manuscript technologies and Snorri Sturluson's Edda; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century written representationsof Sámi; a nineteenth-century liv…
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts
Orality, Textuality, and the Homeric Epics: An Interdisciplinary Study of Oral Texts, Dictated Texts, and Wild Texts is a masterful work by an outstanding scholar. This book is a rich resource that I recommend to anyone interested in orality, writing, and how their interaction relates to contemporary ways of thinking about “texts” in society. It offers the best discussion of “scribal performance” available. The work centers on Homeric poetry, its…
History (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (2 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Alliteration (1 works)