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Author Lord, Albert Bates.

Title The singer resumes the tale / Albert Bates Lord ; edited by Mary Louise Lord
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995

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Description xiii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Myth and poetics
Myth and poetics.
Contents Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- Preface / Mary Louise Lord -- 1. The Nature and Kinds of Oral Literature -- 2. Oral Traditional Lyric Poetry -- 3. Homer and the Muses: Oral Traditional Poetics, a Mythic Episode, and Arming Scenes in the Iliad -- 4. Beowulf and Oral Epic Tradition -- 5. The Formula in Anglo-Saxon Poetry -- 6. The Theme in Anglo-Saxon Poetry -- 7. The Ballad: Textual Stability, Variation, and Memorization -- 8. Rebuttal -- 9. Two Versions of the Theme of the Overnight Visit in The Wedding of Smailagic Meho -- 10. The Transitional Text
Summary 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
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
Analysis Folk poetry History
Folk poetry History
Notes Bibliography: p239-252. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index
Subject Folk poetry -- History and criticism.
Oral tradition -- History and criticism.
Oral tradition.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Poetry, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Author Lord, Mary Louise, 1916-2009.
LC no. 94045608
ISBN 0801431034 (cloth : alk. paper)