Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature – serie
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Old Norse Mythology—Comparative Perspectives
Av Pernille Hermann, Stephen A. Mitchell m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
299 kr
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Old Norse mythology is elusive: it is the label used to describe the religious stories of the pre-Christian North, featuring such well-known gods as Odin and Thor, yet most of the narratives have come down to us in manuscripts from the Middle Ages mainly written by Christians. Our view of the …
Wild Songs, Sweet Songs
The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord
Häftad, 2021
365 kr
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In the 1930s, Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord, two pioneering scholars of oral poetry, conducted adventurous fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and northern Albania, collecting singularly important examples of Albanian epic song. Wild Songs, Sweet Songs presents these materials, which have not …
Weathered Words
Formulaic Language and Verbal Art
Av Frog, William Lamb
Häftad, 2022
303 kr
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Formulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered …
Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century
Av David F. Elmer, Peter McMurray
Häftad, 2024
401 kr
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Grounded in the intellectual legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry (1902–1935) and Albert Lord (1912–1991), Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century gathers reflections on what the study of oral poetry might mean today across diverse poetic traditions, especially …
