The Singer of Tales - Couverture souple

Lord, Albert Bates

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674002830 ISBN 13 : 9780674002838

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2000

Synopsis

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric question: how had the author of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution - set forth in Lord's "The Singer of Tales" - was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose. Now reissued with a new introduction and an audio and visual record, this book should be of interest to those interested in the art and craft of oral literature.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gregory Nagy is Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674002830
• ISBN 13: 9780674002838
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Éditeur: Mitchell Stephen, Nagy Gregory
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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