The singer of tales in performance
Building on his work in "Traditional Oral Epic and Immanent Art", the author aims to dissolve the perceived barrier between "oral" and "written," creating a theory from oral-formulaic theory and the ethnography of speaking and ethnopoetics. He argues that a work's "word-power" derives from its performance and its implied traditional context.
Print Book, English, 1995
Indiana University Press, Bloomington (Ind.), 1995
XVI, 235 p. 25 cm
9780253322258, 0253322251
1014846518
Preface I. Common Ground: Oral-Formulaic Theory and the Ethnography of Speaking II. Ways of Speaking, Ways of Meaning III. The Rhetorical Persistence of Traditional Forms IV. Spellbound: The Serbian Tradition of Magical Charms V. Continuities of Reception: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter VI. Indexed Translation: The PoetOs Self-Interruption in the Old English Andreas Conclusion Bibliography Index