Epic singers and oral tradition

Epic singers and oral tradition / Albert Bates Lord.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lord, Albert Bates
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Series:Myth and poetics
Subjects:
Oral tradition > History and criticism.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Epic poetry > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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