The Iliad and the Oral Epic Tradition

Epic Singers and Oral Tradition 9781501731921

Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of

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Homer and the Oral Tradition 0521213096

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Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition 9781501746147

Asserting that the erotic serves in the epic as a locus of criticism of social values, she traces adaptations in rhetori

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The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past 9780300188998

This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic

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Tradition and Design in the Iliad [Reprint ed.]

First published 1930. This book is a study of the "Iliad" as a work of art. The author shows how Homer takes

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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition 9781501723223

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been perf

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Oral Tradition from the Indus 9781406896176

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The Pity of Achilles : Oral Style and the Unity of the Iliad 9780847686209, 0847686205, 9780847686216, 0847686213

An examination of how the major themes of the "Iliad" -Achilleus' "wrath", heroic values such a

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Oral tradition : study and select bibliography

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Oral tradition : study and select bibliography

Héraclite d’Ephese l'avait déjà proclamé: au départ de toute connaissance, il y a l'ouïe et les yeux. Savoir,

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