Epics and Oral Poetry

03 Oct 1994 12:01

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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