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Singing the Past : Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Reichl, Karl (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Collection:Myth and Poetics
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Nagy, Gregory
  • 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