The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic
Bloomington: Indiama University Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #006421
Full purple cloth. viii, 248 pp. B&W illustrations in-text. Slight bumping and rubbing to spine ends, some very slight sunning to top edge. Dust jacket sunned at spine, bumping to spine ends and corners, short tear to top edge of rear cover, small perforation to fore edge at front flap. In a significant study bridging the disciplines of folklore and anthropology, Brenda E.F. Beck extends our knowledge of India's epic literature by focusing on one particular folk example, the Brothers story, an account of regional settlement of history that contains echoes of oether South Asian epics.
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