Epic Singers and Oral Tradition /

Epic Singers and Oral Tradition / / Albert Bates Lord.

Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Lord, Albert Bates,
MitwirkendeR:
Nagy, Gregory,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1991
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Myth and Poetics
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Words Heard and Words Seen
  • CHAPTER 2. Homer's Originality: Oral Dictated Texts
  • CHAPTER 3. Homeric Echoes In Bihac
  • CHAPTER 4. Avdo Mededovic, Guslar
  • CHAPTER 5. Homer as an Oral-Traditional Poet
  • CHAPTER 6. The Kalevala, the South Slavic Epics, and Homer
  • CHAPTER 7. Beowulf and Odysseus
  • CHAPTER 8. Interlocking Mythic Patterns in Beowulf
  • CHAPTER 9. The Formulaic Structure of Introductions to Direct Discourse in Beowulf and Elene
  • CHAPTER 10. The Influence of a Fixed Text
  • CHAPTER 11. Notes on Digenis Akritas and Serbo-Croatian Epic
  • CHAPTER 12. Narrative Themes in Bulgarian Oral-Traditional Epic and Their Medieval Roots
  • CHAPTER 13. Central Asiatic and Balkan Epic
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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