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Epic Singers and Oral Tradition /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lord, Albert Bates
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Words heard and words seen
  • Homer's originality : oral dictated texts
  • Homeric echoes in Bihać
  • Avdo Međedović, Guslar
  • Homer as an original-traditional poet
  • The Kalevala, the south Slavic epics, and Homer
  • Beowulf and Odysseus
  • Interlocking mythic patterns in Beowulf
  • The formulaic structure of introductions to direct discourse in Beowulf and Elene
  • The influence of a fixed text
  • Notes on Digenis Akritas and Serbo-Croatian epic
  • Narrative themes in Bulgarian oral-traditional epic and their medieval roots
  • Central Asiatic and Balkan epic.