Oral Poetry: An Introduction (Theory & History of Literature) - Softcover

Zumthor, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816617252 ISBN 13: 9780816617258

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

This book aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral, or spoken, poetry. Paul Zumthor, a literary theorist, discusses the development of oral poetry from antiquity to the present in all its aspects: the forms of oral poetry; the epic in the West, Africa and other parts of the globe; styles of performance across the world; roles played in oral poetry (the poet as interpreter, the listeners, the variable duration of oral poetry in time and space, etc.); and oral ritual actions from archaic times to the present.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0816617252
• ISBN 13: 9780816617258
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande