{"product_id":"epic-singers-and-oral-tradition-paperback","title":"Epic Singers and Oral Tradition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlbert Bates Lord\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek \u003ci\u003eDigenis Akritas\u003c\/i\u003e and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish \u003ci\u003eKalevala\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Bulgarian oral epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work of one of the most respected scholars of his generation, \u003ci\u003eEpic Singers and Oral Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of myth and folklore, classicists, medievalists, Slavists, comparatists, literary theorists, and anthropologists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlbert Bates Lord is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor, Emeritus, of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of The \u003ci\u003eSinger of Tales\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451625750706,"sku":"9780801497179","price":93.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/dfe271b1b4c6f4bd2c63200e0988b1cf.webp?v=1778798385","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/epic-singers-and-oral-tradition-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}