Epic Singers and Oral Tradition

Albert Bates Lord

Published by Cornell University Press 1991

Epic Singers and Oral Tradition

Albert Bates Lord

In the series Myth and Poetics

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501731921

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About this book

Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions, Albert Bates Lord here concentrates on the epic singers and their art as manifested in texts or performance.

Author / Editor information

Albert Bates Lord is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor, Emeritus, of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of The Singer of Tales.

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A welcome publication.... The book contains eleven of his most important previously published articles and two studies which have not been published before.... There is something to be learned from every one of these studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Gregory Nagy Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. Words Heard and Words Seen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
CHAPTER 2. Homer's Originality: Oral Dictated Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
CHAPTER 3. Homeric Echoes In Bihac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
CHAPTER 4. Avdo Mededovic, Guslar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
CHAPTER 5. Homer as an Oral-Traditional Poet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
CHAPTER 6. The Kalevala, the South Slavic Epics, and Homer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
CHAPTER 7. Beowulf and Odysseus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
CHAPTER 8. Interlocking Mythic Patterns in Beowulf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
CHAPTER 9. The Formulaic Structure of Introductions to Direct Discourse in Beowulf and Elene Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
CHAPTER 10. The Influence of a Fixed Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
CHAPTER 11. Notes on Digenis Akritas and Serbo-Croatian Epic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
CHAPTER 12. Narrative Themes in Bulgarian Oral-Traditional Epic and Their Medieval Roots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
CHAPTER 13. Central Asiatic and Balkan Epic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 280
Keywords: Literary Studies; Ancient History & Classical Studies

eBook

Published: August 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781501731921