The Singer of Tales
Lord, Albert B.; Mitchell, Stephen; Nagy, Gregory
ISBN 10: 0674808819 ISBN 13: 9780674808812
Published by Harvard University Press (edition ), 1981
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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way. Seller Inventory # 0674808819-7-1
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This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's clic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the pages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans.
Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric Question: How had the author of the Iliad and Odyssey composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution--set forth in Lord's The Singer of Tales --was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose.
Now reissued with a new Introduction and an invaluable audio and visual record, this widely influential book is newly enriched to better serve everyone interested in the art and craft of oral literature.
Review: This seminal work...is now reissued, forty years after its first appearance, with a new introduction by Stephen Mitchell and Gregory Nagy and an accompanying CD-ROM...[the CD] itself...splendidly justifies the reprint...Here at last we can hear the quirky drone of the gusle and the sing-song chant of the poets themselves, as they intone "The Song of Baghdad' or 'The Wedding of Smailagic Meho." The initial effect is disconcerting, but quickly becomes addictive. -- Alan Griffiths Times Literary Supplement
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Singer of Tales
Publisher: Harvard University Press (edition )
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair