Serbocroatian Heroic Songs
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Milman Parry Collection, Texts and Translations
ISBN-10
0674801660
ISBN-13
9780674801660
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Imprint
Harvard University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 27th, 1980
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
816 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.20 x 3.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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The Wedding of Vlahinjic Alija represents a unique experiment in field collecting of oral traditional epic poetry. In order to determine whether and exactly how the text of a long epic would change as the best of oral poets told and retold it, Milman Parry first made a complete audio-recording of Avdo Mededovic singing this long heroic narrative, and then some days later had the entire epic taken down again by dictation from the same singer. Both texts, the sung (6053 verses) and the dictated (5883 verses) are presented in this volume, showing precisely the effects both of recomposition and of the “intervention” of writing by an amanuensis. Osmanbeg Delibegovic i Pavicevic Luka is 13,326 verses long, a modern oral traditional epic of truly Homeric length. It is the longest complete and continuous oral epic text that has yet been recorded anywhere in the modern world.
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