Oral epics in India / edited by Stuart H. Blackburn ... [et al.] ; contributors, Brenda E.F. Beck ... [et al.].

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Joint Committee on South Asia
Other Authors:	Blackburn, Stuart H., Beck, Brenda E. F.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989.
Subjects:	Epic poetry, Indic > History and criticism > Congresses. Folk literature, Indic > History and criticism > Congresses.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Stuart H. Blackburn and Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Patterns of development for Indian oral epics / Stuart H. Blackburn
Caste and regional variants in an oral epic tradition / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Behind the text : performance and ideology in a Tulu oral tradition / Peter J. Claus
Choosing a path : performance strategies in a North Indian epic / Susan S. Wadley
Performers, gods, and heroes in the oral epics of Rajasthan / Komal Kothari
Clowns in control : performances in a shadow puppet tradition in South India / Jonathan GoldbergBelle
Paradigms for the Kali Yuga : the heroes of the Ālhā epic and their fate / Karine Schomer
Core triangles in the folk epics of India / Brenda E.F. Beck
Scapegoats of the gods : the ideology of the Indian epics / John D. Smith

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