Author: Milne Holton
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980347
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Vuk Karadzic, a Serb scholar and linguist, collected and eventually published transcriptions of the traditional oral poetry of the South Slavs. It was a monumental and unprecedented undertaking. Karadzic gathered and heard performances of the rich songs of Balkan peasants, outlaws, and professional singers and their rebel heroes. His four volumes constitute the classic anthology of Balkan oral poetry, treasured for nearly two centuries by readers of all literatures, and influential to such literary giants as Goethe, Merimee, Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and Sir Walter Scott.This edition of the songs offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English. Holton and Mihailovich, leading scholars of Slavic literature, have preserved here the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry, as well as the idiom of the original singers. Extensive notes and comments aid the reader in understanding the poems, the history they record and the oral tradition that lies beneath them, the singers and their audience.The songs contain seven cycles, identified here in sections titled: Songs Before History, Before Kosovo, the Battle of Kosovo, Marko Karadzic, Under the Turks, Songs of the Outlaws, and Songs of the Serbian Insurrection. The editors have selected the best known and most representative songs from each of the cycles. A complete biography is also provided.
Songs of the Serbian People
Author: Milne Holton
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980347
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Vuk Karadzic, a Serb scholar and linguist, collected and eventually published transcriptions of the traditional oral poetry of the South Slavs. It was a monumental and unprecedented undertaking. Karadzic gathered and heard performances of the rich songs of Balkan peasants, outlaws, and professional singers and their rebel heroes. His four volumes constitute the classic anthology of Balkan oral poetry, treasured for nearly two centuries by readers of all literatures, and influential to such literary giants as Goethe, Merimee, Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and Sir Walter Scott.This edition of the songs offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English. Holton and Mihailovich, leading scholars of Slavic literature, have preserved here the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry, as well as the idiom of the original singers. Extensive notes and comments aid the reader in understanding the poems, the history they record and the oral tradition that lies beneath them, the singers and their audience.The songs contain seven cycles, identified here in sections titled: Songs Before History, Before Kosovo, the Battle of Kosovo, Marko Karadzic, Under the Turks, Songs of the Outlaws, and Songs of the Serbian Insurrection. The editors have selected the best known and most representative songs from each of the cycles. A complete biography is also provided.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822980347
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Vuk Karadzic, a Serb scholar and linguist, collected and eventually published transcriptions of the traditional oral poetry of the South Slavs. It was a monumental and unprecedented undertaking. Karadzic gathered and heard performances of the rich songs of Balkan peasants, outlaws, and professional singers and their rebel heroes. His four volumes constitute the classic anthology of Balkan oral poetry, treasured for nearly two centuries by readers of all literatures, and influential to such literary giants as Goethe, Merimee, Pushkin, Mickiewicz, and Sir Walter Scott.This edition of the songs offers the most complete and authoritative translations ever assembled in English. Holton and Mihailovich, leading scholars of Slavic literature, have preserved here the unique meter and rhythm at the heart of Serbian oral poetry, as well as the idiom of the original singers. Extensive notes and comments aid the reader in understanding the poems, the history they record and the oral tradition that lies beneath them, the singers and their audience.The songs contain seven cycles, identified here in sections titled: Songs Before History, Before Kosovo, the Battle of Kosovo, Marko Karadzic, Under the Turks, Songs of the Outlaws, and Songs of the Serbian Insurrection. The editors have selected the best known and most representative songs from each of the cycles. A complete biography is also provided.
The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture
Author: Svetlana Tomic
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793631999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Settled in the nineteenth century, a period of national liberation, this book presents facts about the contribution of women to Serbian culture. The story is, however, of an equal contemporary as well as of historical relevance: work of these authors remained hidden as they were neither adequately evaluated in school curriculums and textbooks, nor recognized by the general public. Does the absence from textbooks and literary histories imply their literature is not worth reading? Or, that the histories of literature are simply biased and inadequate? The answers to these questions are elaborated in this book. The author carefully investigates the strategies of historians and official politics of remembrance, arguing that the link between women's education and emancipation of the society has yet to be properly explained. The reader, whether a student, researcher, social scientist, or an intellectual interested in the history, social development, literature, or politics of Serbia, or the Balkan in general, will benefit from the numerous original sources consulted. This book is a reminder that understanding society means uncovering the hidden and giving voice to the ignored, providing evidence that contradicts dominant theories, rather than simply repeating what we are told.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793631999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Settled in the nineteenth century, a period of national liberation, this book presents facts about the contribution of women to Serbian culture. The story is, however, of an equal contemporary as well as of historical relevance: work of these authors remained hidden as they were neither adequately evaluated in school curriculums and textbooks, nor recognized by the general public. Does the absence from textbooks and literary histories imply their literature is not worth reading? Or, that the histories of literature are simply biased and inadequate? The answers to these questions are elaborated in this book. The author carefully investigates the strategies of historians and official politics of remembrance, arguing that the link between women's education and emancipation of the society has yet to be properly explained. The reader, whether a student, researcher, social scientist, or an intellectual interested in the history, social development, literature, or politics of Serbia, or the Balkan in general, will benefit from the numerous original sources consulted. This book is a reminder that understanding society means uncovering the hidden and giving voice to the ignored, providing evidence that contradicts dominant theories, rather than simply repeating what we are told.
The South Slav Journal
Balcanica
South Slavic Writers Before World War II
Author: Vasa D. Mihailovich
Publisher: Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Covers five literatures - Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian. The writers chosen serve indirectly as a history of each of these literatures in all genres.
Publisher: Detroit [Mich.] : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Covers five literatures - Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian. The writers chosen serve indirectly as a history of each of these literatures in all genres.
Catalog of Folklore, Folklife, and Folk Songs
Author: Cleveland Public Library. John G. White Department
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Yugoslav Folklore
Author: Yvonne R. Lockwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Catalog of Folklore and Folk Songs
Author: Cleveland Public Library. John G. White Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Yugoslavia
Author: Francine Friedman
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This reference work catalogues all English-language books and journal articles about the former Yugoslavia. It contains over 9000 entries, arranged by subject and is fully indexed. The bibliographic citations are arranged under broad subject headings (geography, history and so on). The major subject headings are further broken dowen into easy-to-follow headings and sub-headings.
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This reference work catalogues all English-language books and journal articles about the former Yugoslavia. It contains over 9000 entries, arranged by subject and is fully indexed. The bibliographic citations are arranged under broad subject headings (geography, history and so on). The major subject headings are further broken dowen into easy-to-follow headings and sub-headings.
The Uses of Tradition
Author: Michael Branch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description