Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social ContextCUP Archive, 28.4.1977 - 228 sivua Oral poetry is a wide subject that ranges from American 'folk-songs', Eskimo lyrics or popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and distinct epic composers in Asia and the Pacific. Unlike previous works, this book takes a broad comparative view and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia and Oceania as well as Europe and America. Dr Finnegan includes in her argument the results of topical research from all over the world, thus illuminating and suggesting fresh conclusions to many controversies: the nature of 'oral tradition'; possible connections between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies. |
Sisältö
Some forms of oral poetry | 15 |
The poetry in oral poetry | 24 |
2 | 30 |
Composition | 56 |
Style and performance | 88 |
Repetition style and structure | 102 |
Language and diction | 109 |
Performance | 134 |
Is there a special oral style? | 152 |
Poets and their positions | 170 |
Audience context and function | 214 |
Poetry and society | 244 |
Concluding comment | 272 |
291 | |
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Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
accepted Africa Almeda Riddle analysis Andrzejewski approach aspect assumptions audience Avdo ballad society balwo Barbara Allen basic century Chadwick chanted chapter clear communication composed context conventions Dinka discussion distribution epic epic poetry Eskimo evidence expression folklorists forms formulaic functions generalisations genres Go tell Aunt griots Hausa Homeric ijala individual instance involved kind Kirghiz language lines literary Lord Lord Randal Mandinka McLuhan means mediaeval memorisation Milman Parry minstrels mode nature non-literate occasions oral composition oral literature oral poems oral poetry oral tradition oral transmission oral-formulaic original Orpingalik Parry particular patterns perhaps poetic poets political popular praise primitive reciters recognised repetition role romantic scholars sense shaman singer singing social Somali sometimes songs specialised stanzas study of oral style sung tell Aunt Nancy theory tion Unaya Velema verbal verse versions wide words writing written literature Yoruba Yugoslav Zulu
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