Another Igor Tale hoax?

[Suasso]

Why do I feel that I have read all this in August last year in a discussion 
on the same subject with partially the same participants?

Frans Suasso


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Strakhov, Olga" <strakhov at GSD.HARVARD.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Another Igor Tale hoax?


> As far as I understand, in his book Robert Mann compares Slovo o Polku 
> Igoreve with Nikolai Golovin's edition of the Skazanie of Mamaevom 
> poboishche.
> Nikolai Golovin published his version of Skazanie in Moscow in 1835 (see 
> "Skazanie o poboishche velikago kniazia Dimitriia Ioannovicha Donskago s 
> nechestivym tsarem Mamaem: i s bezchislennymi tatary na Donu, na reke 
> Nepriadve, na pole Kulikove, 1380 goda 8-go sentiabria: sochinenie XV 
> stoletiia", izdal Nikolai Golovin [Moskva: V tip. A. Semena, 1835]; quoted 
> after the copy of the Houghton Library, Harvard).
> Golovin's text in some respect is closer to Slovo than the Zadonshchina.
> The problem is that the original manuscript of Golovin's edition has never 
> been found. Hence, it is quite possible (and more than possible, since 
> this version is unique in many readings) that Golovin either "corrected" 
> or "reconstructed" his text so that it might look more "Igor'-like".
> In short, Golovin's version of the Skazanie is well known, but is not 
> considered to be reliable.
> Olga Strakhov
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list 
> [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Schultz
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:12 AM
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Another Igor Tale hoax?
>
> I recently received this announcement. (Below.) Is this a hoax? After all 
> the decades of debate over the authenticity of the Slovo o polku Igoreve, 
> we're now being told that a major source was OVERLOOKED for nearly two 
> centuries? Can someone fill me in before I order this book? Is this for 
> real?
> Richard
> schultz1970 at yahoo.com
>
> NEW EVIDENCE OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF THE IGOR TALE
> The Moscow publishing house Iazyki Slavianskoi Kul’tury has just published 
> the first study of the Igor Tale to incorporate data from an overlooked 
> version of the Skazanie o Mamaevom poboishche – a version that appears to 
> be from the lost first redaction. Its new parallels to the text of the 
> Igor Tale help to confirm the authenticity of the Slovo o polku Igoreve as 
> an epic song of the Kievan Period that first circulated orally before it 
> was recorded sometime after 1215. The rare 15th-century version of the 
> Skazanie, published in booklet form in 1835 and subsequently forgotten, 
> casts light on the evolution of the Zadonshchina as well. It now appears 
> that the Zadonshchina consists primarily of an originally oral text, with 
> a conclusion that was added from written sources. The overlooked Skazanie 
> redaction helps to identify the boundary between the oral text and the 
> more "literary" conclusion that was attached to it. This edition also 
> presents material
> from wedding songs and other folkloric sources discussed in The Igor Tales 
> (2005).
> Robert Mann, Pesn’ o polku Igoreve. Novye otkrytiia, (Iazyki Slavianskoi 
> Kul’tury, Moscow, 2009), paper 96 pp., ISBN 978-9551-0323-5.
> Inquiries can be addressed to the publishing house in Moscow 
> Lrc.phouse at gmail.com
> or to me, Anna Dranova, (The Birchbark Press of Karacharovo): 
> wolandusa at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>
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