Author: Benjamin A. StolzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Oral Literature and the Formula
Author: Benjamin A. StolzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Oral Literature and the Formula
Author: Benjamin A. StolzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Oral Literature in Africa
Author: Ruth FinneganPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924708
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This book is the first volume in the World Oral Literature Series, an ongoing collaboration between OBP and World Oral Literature Project. A free online archive of recordings and photographs that Finnegan made during her fieldwork in the late 1960s is hosted by the World Oral Literature Project (http: //www.oralliterature.org/collections/rfinnegan001.html) and can also be accessed from publisher's website.
A Poet's Glossary
Author: Edward HirschPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547737467
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 683
Book Description
A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over. Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient Greece to the revolutionaries of Latin America, from small formal elements to large mysteries, he provides thoughtful definitions for the most important poetic vocabulary, imbuing his work with a lifetime of scholarship and the warmth of a man devoted to his art. Knowing how a poem works is essential to unlocking its meaning. Hirsch’s entries will deepen readers’ relationships with their favorite poems and open greater levels of understanding in each new poem they encounter. Shot through with the enthusiasm, authority, and sheer delight that made How to Read a Poem so beloved, A Poet’s Glossary is a new classic.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 2, Text and Reader
Author: E. S. ShafferPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521227568
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association asserting that comparative literary studies represent a major direction forwards.
A Dictionary of Oral Literature
Author: Leteipa Ole SunkuliPublisher: East African Publishers
ISBN: 9789966465078
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Homer and the Oral Tradition
Author: G. S. KirkPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521213096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In this 1976 volume, Geoffrey Kirk considers the nature of oral and epic poetry, and the meaning of an oral tradition.
Traditional Oral Epic
Author: John Miles FoleyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520914481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histories, genres, and documents, as well as both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of their poetics. Until now, the emphasis in studies of oral traditional works has been placed on addressing the correspondences among traditions—shared structures of "formula," "theme," and "story-pattern." Traditional Oral Epic explores the incongruencies among traditions and focuses on the qualities specific to certain oral and oral-derived works. It is certain to inspire further research in this field.
The Homeric Question and the Oral-formulaic Theory
Author: Minna Skafte JensenPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772890968
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
In Danish, Appendix in Greek or Latin.
Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction
Author: Mariangela PalladinoPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004360042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction investigates Morrison’s aesthetics in terms of narrative’s ethical import. Morrison’s writing is concerned with ethically debatable issues and it offers a problematic representation of human experiences in African American history. Whilst previous critical studies consider ethics in relation to events in the story, Palladino explores its intersection with aesthetics. Narrativizing the moral law, Morrison’s imperative is to relate the past, and to find ways to tell what is often unspeakable. The quest for ways to narrate horrific facts is a quest for an aesthetics which includes an appeal to the reader and thus necessarily engages with the ethical. This study foregrounds the equivocal as a key feature of narrative ethics.