The singer of tales in performance
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The singer of tales in performance
（Voices in performance and text）
Indiana University Press, c1995
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-228) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Building on his work in "Traditional Oral Epic and Immanent Art", John Foley dissolves the perceived barrier between "oral" and "written," creating a composite theory from oral-formulaic theory and the ethnography of speaking and ethnopoetics. He argues that a work's "word-power" derives from its real performance and its implied traditional context. Foley applies the concept of word-power to a wide range of genres-including Serbian charms, the Homeric Hymns, and the Anglo-Saxon hagiography Andreas, uncovering the expressive roots of oral-derived traditional works to recover both the performance event and the traditional context.
Table of Contents
Preface I. Common Ground: Oral-Formulaic Theory and the Ethnography of Speaking II. Ways of Speaking, Ways of Meaning III. The Rhetorical Persistence of Traditional Forms IV. Spellbound: The Serbian Tradition of Magical Charms V. Continuities of Reception: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter VI. Indexed Translation: The PoetOs Self-Interruption in the Old English Andreas Conclusion Bibliography Index
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