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Serbocroatian Heroic Songs

Albert B Lord editor David E Bynum editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Published:31st Jan '74

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In researching this collection, Milman Parry set out to test the theories he had evolved on oral epic, theories that were to introduce a new era of Homeric scholarship. In the Balkans, one of the few areas where a living tradition of oral heroic poetry was still to be found, he observed firsthand how unlettered singers composed their poems, and collected more than 1200 hours of poetic performance from the most experienced bards. Comprising representative texts and translations from the Parry Collection, this series records the South Slavic tradition.

ISBN: 9780674801639

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 680g

338 pages