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Traditional Oral Epic
John Miles Foley
其他書名
The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croation Return Song
出版University of California Press, 2023-07-28
主題Literary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryLiterary Criticism / European / General
ISBN05209144819780520914483
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XsTLEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histories, genres, and documents, as well as both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of their poetics.

Until now, the emphasis in studies of oral traditional works has been placed on addressing the correspondences among traditions—shared structures of "formula," "theme," and "story-pattern." Traditional Oral Epic explores the incongruencies among traditions and focuses on the qualities specific to certain oral and oral-derived works. It is certain to inspire further research in this field.


John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to ter