Oral Poetry - An Introduction

Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity to the present in all its aspects, including forms of oral poetry, the epic in the West and other parts of the globe and styles of performance.

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Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity to the present in all its aspects, including forms of oral poetry, the epic in the West and other parts of the globe and styles of performance.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Zumthor
• Assisted by: Walter J. Ong (Editor), K.M. Judy (Translation), Kathy Murphy-Judy (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.1990
• EAN: 9780816617258
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-1725-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 153 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Theory and History of Literature; Theory of history & literature; Theory and History of Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies