The Singer of Tales (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 24) - Softcover

Lord, Albert Bates

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674002830 ISBN 13: 9780674002838

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2000

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This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings 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 invaluable audio and visual record, this widely influential book is newly enriched to better serve everyone interested in the art and craft of oral literature.

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Gregory Nagy is the Jones Professor of Classical Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674002830
• ISBN 13: 9780674002838
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 307
• Herausgeber: Mitchell Stephen, Nagy Gregory
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