Epic World of Olonkho: Spatial Organization and Subject Matter
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The first monograph in Russian folklore studies dealing with the subject-composition structure of the Yakut heroic epos Olonkho. It reconstructs the structural invariant of the epic narration in the course of a structural-semantic analysis. The subject and composition of the epos convey a peculiar spatial experience and spatial notions prevailing in Yakut culture.