Notebooks
Epics and Oral Poetry
03 Oct 1994 12:01
Recommended (examples):
- Norman Cohn (trans.), Gold Khan
- Vladimir Nabokov (trans.), The Song of Igor's Campaign
Recommended (about):
- Albert Lord, The Singer of Tales
- Franco Moretti, The Modern Epic
To read:
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Earthly Paradise and the
Renaissance Epic
- C. M. Bowra, Heroic Poetry
- Steven C. Caton, ``Peaks of Yemen I Summon'': Poetry as
Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe
- John Colarusso, Nart Sagas from the Caucauses: Myths and
Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs
- Gisli Sgurdsson, The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral
Tradition: A Discourse on Method [Blurb]
- Havelock, Preface to Plato
- Guida M. Jackson, Traditional Epics: A Literary
Companion
- Kalevala
- Albert Lord, Epic Singers and the Oral Tradition
- Dean A. Miller, The Epic Hero
- Donald L. Philippi, Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic
Tradition of the Ainu
- Karl Reichl, Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic
Poetry [Blurb]
- Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of
Indo-European Poetics