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The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation

The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismMusic Instruction: General

ISBN10: 0367761319
ISBN13: 9780367761318
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 27 2021
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry.

The leading question of the book is how the socio-cultural context of performance and the various performance elements contribute to the meaning of oral epics. This is a question which not only concerns epics collected from living oral tradition, but which is also of importance for the understanding of the epics of antiquity and the Middle Ages which originated and flourished in an oral milieu.

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