Singing the Past : : Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry / / Karl Reichl.
Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar to heroic poetry in O...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Myth and Poetics
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 4 maps, 1 halftone |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transcription, Pronunciation, and Translations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. Turkic Bards and Oral Epics
- CHAPTER TWO.Variations on Epic and History
- CHAPTER THREE. In Search of the Heroic Lay
- CHAPTER FOUR. Heroic Epic and Tribal Roots
- CHAPTER FIVE. Heroic Past and Poetic Presence
- Conclusion
- APPENDIX ONE. The Text of Tdwke-batü
- APPENDIX TWO. The Text of Ormanbet-biy
- Works Cited
- Index