Milman Parry (54 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. This limited edition contains the critical texts of eight long oral epics from four bards of northern Bosnia, the northern most predominantly Muslim district in Europe. Sung with the accompaniment of the picked tambura rather than the bowed gusle that is familiar elsewhere in the Yugoslav tradition, the epos in northern Bosnia was often strophic or stanzaic rather than stichic. This volume is the first publication in the more than century-old scholarship on South Slavic oral traditions to take note of that fact, and to document it with specific texts. The editor's Prolegomena include detailed discussions of the principles of rhythm in this epos, the sources of the tales in it, and extensive comparative commentaries linking the eight narratives with those found in other Yugoslav towns, especially with the tradition of Avdo Mededovic at Bijelo Polje.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. An extraction of pages 179-197 from the Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. LXIV, 1933. light toning, soiling. unmarked. solid.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 338 pages. 9.30x6.20x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Boards (HB) in near fine condition with some some tiny brown spots upper page edges. 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 1,200 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. 326 pages with glossary.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This limited edition contains the critical texts of eight long oral epics from four bards of northern Bosnia, the northern most predominantly Muslim district in Europe. Sung with the accompaniment of the picked tambura rather than the bowed gusle that is familiar elsewhere in the Yugoslav tradition, the epos in northern Bosnia was often strophic or stanzaic rather than stichic. This volume is the first publication in the more than century-old scholarship on South Slavic oral traditions to take note of that fact, and to document it with specific texts. The editor's Prolegomena include detailed discussions of the principles of rhythm in this epos, the sources of the tales in it, and extensive comparative commentaries linking the eight narratives with those found in other Yugoslav towns, especially with the tradition of Avdo Mededovic at Bijelo Polje.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1971, hardback in jacket, 483 pages | sound copy shows moderate general wear, some yellowing due to age; free of name, notes etc | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, Oxford University Press, 1971: Adam Parry's collected edition of his father Milman Parry's papers on oral poetry, including English translations of the two French dissertations and extracts from the Jugoslavian journal. Dark blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt with the Oxford device at the foot, in the original dust jacket under a cellophane library wrapper. An ex-library copy: call-number label and reinforcing tape at the spine, "Michigan State Library" stamped on the top edge of the text block, a RELEASED stamp and adhesive residue from a removed pocket on the rear endpapers, and light pencil marginal marks in the introduction; the jacket is rubbed and toned with the tape showing at the spine ends. The boards are clean and square, the binding tight, and the text block clean and bright throughout the Greek, a very good copy in a good jacket, unclipped at 6.00 pounds net. Ex-Library.…

Condition: New. Parry is a major figure in Homeric studies. This volume is a collection of his most important works. Num Pages: 552 pages, halftone as frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 844. . 1988. Reprint. paperback. . . . . …