SLAV 204

Slavic Folklore and Mythology

3 units

Fall 2019

Topics

Kononenko, Natalie. Slavic Folklore: A Handbook. Greenwood, 2007.
required
Herder, Johann Gottfried. Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man. Translated by T. Churchill. Bergman, 1800 [as listed]. Selected chapters.
required
Hobsbawm, Eric. “Introduction: Inventing Tradition.” In The Invention of Tradition, 1983, pp. 1–14.
required
Haney, Jack, editor. Russian Folktales. M. E. Sharpe, 2009.
recommended
Ivanits, Linda. Russian Folk Belief. M. E. Sharpe, 1992.
recommended
Knab, Sophie Hodorowicz. Polish Customs, Traditions & Folklore. Hippocrine, 1993.
recommended
Locke, Geoffrey N. W. The Serbian Epic Ballads: An Anthology. Tanesi, 1927 [as listed].
recommended
Mijatovich, Elodie Lawton. Serbian Folk-lore. 1908.
recommended
The Three Kingdoms: Russian Folk Tales from Alexander Afanasiev’s Collection. Raduga, 1985.
recommended
Ukrainian Dumy: Original Texts. Translated by George Tarnawsky and Patricia Kilina. CIUS/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1979.
recommended

Winter 2018

To acquaint students with Slavic cultures and Slavic belief systems
the genres of folklore and the type of artistic expression characteristic of each
To examine change in lore over time
To become acquainted with the use of folklore in the fine arts
To understand the political use of folklore
An analysis of a set of tales or other folklore genres from the student’s chosen Slavic group
An online unit that presents folk beliefs as expressed in tales or songs
An analysis of one or more literary, musical, or filmic works based on folklore

Kononenko, Natalie. Slavic Folklore: A Handbook. Greenwood Press 2007
unspecified
Haney, Jack ed. Russian Folktales. M.E. Sharpe, 2009
unspecified
Ivanits, Linda, Russian Folk Belief, M.E. Sharpe, 1992
unspecified

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