Josef Dobrovský and the Origins of the Igorʹ TaleThis controversial and groundbreaking book revisits the origins of one of the most beloved works of East Slavic literature, the Slovo o polku Igoreve (The Igor' Tale). Edward Keenan delves into the history of the publication of the Tale and produces a meticulous analysis of its language in order to demonstrate that the text is not an authentic twelfth century document. Rather, Keenan argues that it is a product of the late eighteenth century, created