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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Slavianskie Skazaniia o Solomone i Kitovrase i Zapadnye Legendy o Morol`fe i Merline
[ Merlin and Solomon: Selected works : Slavic legends about Solomon and Kitovras and the Western legends on Morolf and Merlin]
Moscow-St. Petersburg: EKSMO-Press, Terra Fantastica, 2001 860 p Serie: Antologiia Mysli Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 5040081871 Language: Russian
Aleksandr Veselovskii (1838-1906), a Russian historian of literature and a professor of St. Petersburg University, was one of the first who started to study mythological and folklore plots, which later were called archetypal. This is a collection of his four major works: Merlin and Solomon: Slavic legends about Solomon and Kitovras and the western legends on Morolf and Merlin; In Search of the Grail (three works about Swedish folklore); Contradictions of the Italian Renaissance (four works); Poetics of Plots (Introduction to historical poetics). List of Veselovskii`s works and bibliographic references to the works included in this collection.