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:
- Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford (eds.),
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community
- 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
- John Miles Foley, Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song [Alternate link]
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Earthly Paradise and the
Renaissance Epic
- Gisli Sgurdsson, The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral
Tradition: A Discourse on Method
- José M. González, The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft:
Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective
- J. B. Hainsworth, The Idea of Epic
- 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 [cf.]
- Ward Parks, Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative: The Homeric and Old English Traditions
- Karl Reichl, Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic
Poetry
- Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of
Indo-European Poetics
