Investigating the Mongolic Epics: Relevance and Importance of A. N. Veselovsky’s Ideas (180th Anniversary of Birth of the Academician)
https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2018-15-163-181
Abstract
Attempts to present the historical development of folk poetry had been undertaken long before A. N. Veselovsky, but only he succeeded in developing a theory of the history of the epic, and systematizing general knowledge on the issue. A. Veselovsky’s ideas are still relevant, and his hypotheses are confirmed, including in studies of the Mongolic heroic epics.
About the Author
T. Govenko
Gorky Institute of World Literature of the RAS (25a, Povarskaya Str., Moscow, 121069, Russian Federation)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ph.D in Philology (Cand. of Philological Sc.), Senior Research Associate
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Govenko T. Investigating the Mongolic Epics: Relevance and Importance of A. N. Veselovsky’s Ideas (180th Anniversary of Birth of the Academician). Mongolian Studies. 2018;10(4):163-181. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2018-15-163-181
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