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Title: The Singer of Tales, Second Edition by Albert Bates Lord, Stephen Mitchell, Gregory Nagy ISBN: 0674002830 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 05 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential reading in oral tradition
Comment: A great book which changed the way we look at poetry produced by an oral tradition. Based on fieldwork by Milman Parry Lord shows the structure behind the improvisation and applies the theory to Serbo Croation epic tradition, Homer and French medieval poetry.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential to understand oral tradition
Comment: A groundbreaking book which redefined the way we look at oral tradition. Oral-formulaic theory developed on Milman Parry's fieldwork applied to Serbo-Croatian singing, Homeric poetry and medieval French epic. I used the book during research on scottish ballads. Now finally a second edition with a wonderful cd.
Rating: 5
Summary: A classic among classics
Comment: Like many graduate students in Classical Studies, I had to read _The Singer of Tales_ in a course on Homeric poetry. What I found in it completely altered my understanding of Homer and of epic, and even today it's almost impossible for me to read the _Iliad_ and _Odyssey_ as anything other than oral poems. I did a research paper on another book edited by Albert Lord (_The Wedding of Smailagic Meho_), an epic sung by a Yugoslav Muslim and recorded by Parry in the 1930s. The similarities, both in plot and in formulaic style, between this epic and Homer's are unmistakable. I highly recommend this book; it's much more accessible than Parry's collected papers.
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Title: The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry by Adam Parry, Milman Parry ISBN: 019520560X Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: 1987 List Price(USD): $41.40 |
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Title: Oral Poetry: An Introduction (Theory and History of Literature, Vol 70) by Paul Zumthor, Kathy Murphy-Judy, Walter J. Ong ISBN: 0816617252 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong ISBN: 0415027969 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 1988 List Price(USD): $20.99 |
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Title: Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry by Gregory Nagy ISBN: 0801860156 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Preface to Plato by Eric A. Havelock ISBN: 0674699068 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 1982 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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