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John Miles Foley

Traditional Oral Epic

The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croation Return Song

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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 ex… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-520-08436-0
  • EAN: 9780520084360
  • Produktnummer: 1343112
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
  • Seitenangabe: 680 S.
  • Masse: x D3.0 cm 726 g
  • Abbildungen: Trade Paperback
  • Gewicht: 726

Über den Autor


John Miles Foley is William H. Byler Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, University of Missouri, and founding editor of Oral Tradition.

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