Epic singers and oral tradition /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991. |
Series: | Myth and poetics.
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Table of Contents:
- Words heard and words seen
- Homer's originality : oral dictated texts
- Homeric echoes in Bihać
- Avdo Međedović, Guslar
- Homer as an original-traditional poet
- The Kalevala, the south Slavic epics, and Homer
- Beowulf and Odysseus
- Interlocking mythic patterns in Beowulf
- The formulaic structure of introductions to direct discourse in Beowulf and Elene
- The influence of a fixed text
- Notes on Digenis Akritas and Serbo-Croatian epic
- Narrative themes in Bulgarian oral-traditional epic and their medieval roots
- Central Asiatic and Balkan epic.