Author: Lord, Albert Bates
Title: Epic Singers and Oral Tradition
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, 1991. orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, xii, 262 pp. PAPERBACK. Series : Myth and poetics. Minor rubbing. Large rubberstamp to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents : Words heard and words seen -- Homer’s originality : oral dictated texts -- Homeric echoes in Bihac -- Avdo Mededovic, Guslar -- Homer as an original-traditional poet -- The Kalevala, the south Slavic epics, and Homer -- Beowulf and Odysseus -- Interlocking mythic patterns in Beowulf -- The formulaic structure of introductions to direct discourse in Beowulf and Elene -- The influence of a fixed text -- Notes on Digenis Akritas and Serbo-Croatian epic -- Narrative themes in Bulgarian oral- traditional epic and their medieval roots -- Central Asiatic and Balkan epic.

Keywords: Literary History, Oral Literature, Epic Poetry, Criticism, , , , ,