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The Ballad and Oral Literature (Paperback)
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The Ballad and Oral Literature (Paperback)
Series: Harvard English Studies
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Francis James Child, compiler and editor of the monumental English
and Scottish Popular Ballads, established the scholarly study of
folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at
Harvard University, notably George Lyman Kittredge, Milman Parry,
and Albert B. Lord, discovered new ways of relating ideas about
sung narrative to the study of epic poetry and what has come to be
called-though not without controversy-"oral literature." In this
volume, sixteen distinguished scholars from Europe and the United
States offer original essays in the spirit of these pioneers. The
topics of their studies include well-known "Child Ballads" in their
British and American forms; aspects of the oral literatures of
France, Ireland, Scandinavia, medieval England, ancient Greece, and
modern Egypt; and recent literary ballads and popular songs. Many
of the essays evince a concern with the theoretical underpinnings
of the study of folklore and literature, orality and literacy; and
as a whole the volume reestablishes the European ballad in the
wider context of oral literature. Among the contributors are Albert
B. Lord, Bengt R. Jonsson, Gregory Nagy, David Buchan, Vesteinn
Olason, and Karl Reichl.
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