Origins of Heroic Epic
In his 1963 work "Origins of Heroic Epic: early forms and archaic monuments", he studied and compared elements of four ancient civilizations: Karelian-Finnish (pp.95-155), Caucasian (156-246), Turkic-Mongolian (247-374) and Sumerian-Akkadian (375-422). Here the author examines very ancient myths and their role in the formation of the archaic epic. Among the discussed ones is the Alpamysh, ancient Turkic epic.
Meletinskii also makes an interesting analysis of comic doublets (particularly in "Primary sources epic" pp.55-58, bibliography included).
The book also contains a bibliography (pp. 449-459), Primary sources epic (21-94).
This work doesn't seem to be translated in other languages.
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