Singer of Tales
ISBN-13:
9780674808805
ISBN-10:
0674808800
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Albert B. Lord
Publication date:
1981
Publisher:
Harvard Univ Pr
Format:
Paperback
324 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780674808805
ISBN-10:
0674808800
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Albert B. Lord
Publication date:
1981
Publisher:
Harvard Univ Pr
Format:
Paperback
324 pages
Summary
Singer of Tales (ISBN-13: 9780674808805 and ISBN-10: 0674808800), written by authors
Albert B. Lord, was published by Harvard Univ Pr in 1981.
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This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric Question: How had the author of the Iliad and Odyssey composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution--set forth in Lord's The Singer of Tales--was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose. Now reissued with a new Introduction and an invaluable audio and visual record, this widely influential book is newly enriched to better serve everyone interested in the art and craft of oral literature.
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