Research Catalog

Title

Eros in folklore / edited by Mihály Hoppál and Eszter Csonka-Takacs.

Publication

Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó : European Folklore Institute, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hoppál, Mihály
• Csonka-Takács, Eszter

Description

253 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Bibliotheca Traditionis Europae, 1419-7901 ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Bibliotheca Traditionis Europae 3.

Subject

• Sex > Folklore > History and criticism
• Sex > Folklore

Genre/Form

Folklore

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Eros and Culture: A Foreword / Mihaly Hoppal -- Sexual Life and Erotic Symbolism in Antiquity / Erika Szepes -- Orgy Accusations in the Middle Ages / Gabor Klaniczay -- The Heart Story / Vilmos Voigt -- Adam and Eve: Myths of the Creation of Eros / Ilona Nagy -- The Erotic Tradition in Russia: Pushkin and his Fairy-Tale "Czar' Nikita" / Dagmar Burkhart -- The Symbol of Desire and Deceptive Happiness / Tekla Domotor -- Lovers Under the Tree / Kincso Verebelyi -- Nakedness, as the Negation of Eros / Mihaly Hoppal -- Research on Slovak Erotic Folklore / Eva Krekovicova, Gabriela Kilianova -- The Mermaid--Folklore in Fiction / Aija Janelsina-Priedite -- Sexual Riddles--Folk Eroticism / Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhoj -- The World of the Erotic Story: Formal Elements, Values and Performance / Ulf Palmenfelt -- Erotic Metaphor in Occupational Songs / Gerald Porter -- Erotic Folktales of the Bulsa in Northern Ghana / Sabine Dinslage -- Eros in the Family ... Who is one Forbidden to Marry? / Veronika Gorog -- A Thousand and One Nights in Egypt Today: From Folktale to Erotic Ballad / Susan Slyomovics -- The Humour (Obscene) of an Asian Storyteller / Venetia Newal.

ISBN

963057814X

OCLC

• 50551581
• SCSB-12063166

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library