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Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity to the present in all its aspects, including forms of oral poetry, the epic in the West and other parts of the globe and styles of performance.

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Poetic orality - defining the field, the arena of the debate, inventory; the forms - forms and genres, the epic, at the level of the text; the performance - a circumstantial discourse, the vocal work, the vocal work II, the presence of the body; roles and functions - the interpreter, the audience, duration and memory, rite and action.

Oral Poetry An Introduction

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/06/1990
      ISBN13: 9780816617258, 978-0816617258
      ISBN10: 0816617252

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral poetry. The author discusses its development from antiquity to the present in all its aspects, including forms of oral poetry, the epic in the West and other parts of the globe and styles of performance.

      Table of Contents
      Poetic orality - defining the field, the arena of the debate, inventory; the forms - forms and genres, the epic, at the level of the text; the performance - a circumstantial discourse, the vocal work, the vocal work II, the presence of the body; roles and functions - the interpreter, the audience, duration and memory, rite and action.

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