The Singer of TalesHarvard University Press, 2000 - 307 pages 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. |
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
SINGERS PERFORMANCE AND TRAINING | 13 |
THE FORMULA | 30 |
THE THEME | 68 |
SONGS AND THE SONG | 99 |
WRITING AND ORAL TRADITION | 124 |
The Application | 139 |
HOMER | 141 |
THE ODYSSEY | 158 |
THE ILIAD | 186 |
SOME NOTES ON MEDIEVAL EPIC | 198 |
APPENDICES | 223 |
NOTES | 277 |
305 | |
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The Singer of Tales Albert Bates Lord,Stephen Arthur Mitchell,Gregory Nagy Affichage d'extraits - 2000 |