![]() ![]() The heroic folk epic (or “folk epic”) is based on the traditional mythological epic literature and heroic folktale as well as on the traditional historical accounts and in part on the panegyrics of later times. The heroic epic has come down to us in the form of the epopee-whether in book form (the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and Beowulf) or as an oral account ( Dzhangar, Alpamysh, and Manas)-as well as in the form of brief “epic songs” (such as the Russian byliny, the South Slavic heroic songs, and the Poetic Edda), which were sometimes grouped into cycles, and more rarely in the form of a prose narrative (such as the saga and the narty epic). This designation, however, is not completely accurate, inasmuch as epic works that are in book form have their own distinctive style and sometimes even a distinctive ideology, whereas the folk epics proper-such as ballads, traditional historical accounts, songs, and folk novels-may only with important reservations be called heroic epics. ![]() ![]() Most of the great epic works recorded in writing had their source in folklore in fact, the distinctive features of the genre took shape during the folkloric stage, and the heroic epic therefore is often called a folk epic. The heroic epic may be in book form or may be transmitted orally. (Russian epos, in its narrow sense, designating a specific genre or group of genres), a heroic narrative about the past that comprises an integrated picture of the life of a people and represents the harmonious unity of a certain heroic world and its epic heroes. ![]()
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