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Traditional Oral Epic
Language: en
Pages: 439
Authors: John Miles Foley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-28 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues
Epic Singers and Oral Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Albert Bates Lord
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-06 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped b
Traditional Oral Epic
Language: en
Pages: 424
Authors: John Miles Foley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher:

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John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues
Immanent Art
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: John Miles Foley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:

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Examines the aesthetics of traditional oral epic. Foley believes that epics share meanings that are inherent in the traditional structures of the idiom employed
Homer’s Traditional Art
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: John Miles Foley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-10 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral tra