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The Singer Resumes the Tale (Hardcover)
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The Singer Resumes the Tale (Hardcover)
Series: Myth and Poetics
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Edited by Mary Louise Lord after the author's death, The Singer
Resumes the Tale focuses on the performance of stories and poems
within settings that range from ancient Greek palaces to Latvian
villages. Lord expounds and develops his approach to oral
literature in this book, responds systematically for the first time
to criticisms of oral theory, and extends his methods to the
analysis of lyric poems. He also considers the implications of the
transitional text - a work made up of both oral and literary
components. Elements of the oral tradition - the practice of
storytelling in prose or verse, the art of composing and
transmitting songs, the content of these texts, the kinds of songs
composed, and the poetics of oral literature - are discussed in the
light of several traditions, beginning in the ancient world,
through the Middle Ages, to the present. Throughout, the central
figure is always the singer. Homer, the Beowulf poet, women who
perform lyric songs, tellers of folktales, singers of such ballads
as "Barbara Allen", bards of the Balkans: all play prominent roles
in Lord's book, as they have played central roles in the creation
of this fundamental literature.
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