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This volume is intended as a belated but heartfelt thank-you and Gedenkschrift to the late Larry Syndergaard (1936-2015), long-time professor of English at West

The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore provides a broad survey of the folklore of the Slavic and East European world: Russia, Ukraine, and the