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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lord, Albert Bates
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Poesie epique.
Tradition orale.
Mondelinge overlevering.
Volksepen.
Mündliche Überlieferung
Geschichte
Epik
Mündliche Literatur
Sänger
Oral tradition.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Epic poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology.
Poesie epique > Histoire et critique.
Analyse des formules orales.
Tradition orale > Histoire et critique.
Oral tradition > History and criticism.
Epic poetry > History and criticism.
Europa
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek Digenis Akritas and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish Kalevala, and the Bulgarian oral epic. The work of one of the most respected scholars of his generation, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of myth and folklore, classicists, medievalists, Slavists, comparatists, literary theorists, and anthropologists.
Description:Spine title: Epic singers & oral tradition.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781501731921

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