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Epic Singers and Oral Traditon

by: Lord, A.b.

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Category: Greek Philology
Code: 26329
ISBN-13: 9780801497179 / 978-0-8014-9717-9
ISBN-10: 0801497175 / 0-8014-9717-5
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 1991
Publication Place: Ithaca and London
Binding: Paper
Pages: 262
Book Condition: New
Comments: (Myth and Poetics)

Epic Singers and Oral Tradition
Albert Bates Lord
In the series Myth and Poetics

About this book
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 In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues.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.


Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Gregory Nagy
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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