Routledge Revivals: Turkic Oral Epic Poetry (1992)

Traditions, Forms, Poetic Structure

Karl Reichl author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:15th Mar '19

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Originally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia. The book seeks to remedy the problem of non-specialists’ lack of access to information on the Turkic traditions, and in the process, it provides scholars in various disciplines with material for comparative investigation. The book focuses on "central traditions" of this region, specifically those of the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpak’s, and Kirghiz and looks at the historical and linguistic background to a survey of the earliest documents, portraits of the singers and of performance considerations of genre, story-patterns, and formulaic diction, and discussions of "composition in performance", memory, rhetoric and diffusion.

ISBN: 9780815357797

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

412 pages