The Singer Resumes the Tale - Rilegato

Lord, Albert

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0801431034 ISBN 13: 9780801431036

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Edited by Mary Louise Lord after the author's death, The Singer Resumes the Tale focuses on the performance of stories and poems within settings that range from ancient Greek palaces to Latvian villages. Lord expounds and develops his approach to oral literature in this book, responds systematically for the first time to criticisms of oral theory, and extends his methods to the analysis of lyric poems. He also considers the implications of the transitional text - a work made up of both oral and literary components.
Elements of the oral tradition - the practice of storytelling in prose or verse, the art of composing and transmitting songs, the content of these texts, the kinds of songs composed, and the poetics of oral literature - are discussed in the light of several traditions, beginning in the ancient world, through the Middle Ages, to the present. Throughout, the central figure is always the singer. Homer, the Beowulf poet, women who perform lyric songs, tellers of folktales, singers of such ballads as "Barbara Allen," bards of the Balkans: all play prominent roles in Lord's book, as they have played central roles in the creation of this fundamental literature.

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Does thinking differ in western and non-western cultures. Read the results as a team of philosophers, psychologists, theologians, anthropologists and narrativises grapple with the question

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801431034
• ISBN 13: 9780801431036
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 276
• Redattore: Lord Mary Louise
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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