Innovations in Epic Studies by Lauri Honko
Hakamies, Pekka (2014)
Hakamies, Pekka
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2014
Kuvaus
Pekka Hakamies is the Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Turku. His research interests include paremiology, epic, and the use of folk tradition as a part of group identity. He is also the editor of the FF Communications series and has recently edited the collection of selected art-icles of Lauri Honko (FFC 304).
Tiivistelmä
This article aims at tracing the roots of the theoretical concepts developed by Lauri Honko in his research on epic: what were his main sources in theoretical thinking, how did he apply and develop concepts formulated by authors such as Albert Lord, and what were his own innovations. This article aims also at relating Honko’s thinking to other relevant theoretical perspectives, but which he more or less rejected or ignored in his writings.