The Singer of Tales - Couverture souple

Lord, Albert B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674975731 ISBN 13 : 9780674975736

Editeur : Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019

Synopsis

First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord s The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, Lord analyzes in impressive detail the techniques of oral composition in performance. He explores the consequences of this analysis for the interpretation of numerous works of traditional verbal art, including in addition to South Slavic epic songs the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, Beowulf, the Chanson de Roland, and the Byzantine epic Digenis Akritas. A cardinal text for the study of oral traditions, The Singer of Tales also represents an exemplary use of the comparative method in literary criticism.

This third edition offers a corrected text of the second edition and is supplemented by an open-access website (in lieu of the second edition s CD-ROM), providing all the recordings discussed by Lord, as well as a variety of other multimedia materials.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David F. Elmer is Professor of the Classics and Associate Curator of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674975731
• ISBN 13: 9780674975736
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Éditeur: Elmer David F.
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