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 ...
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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.
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Add this copy of Singer of Tales in Performance, the to cart. $34.93, like new condition, Sold by Pistil Books Online rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Indiana Univ Pr.
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Fine. No Jacket. Music Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Contents include: Oral formulaic theory and the ethnography of speaking, Serbian tradition of magical charms, Homeric hymn to demter, Old English Andreas, Native American traditions, South Slavic traditions into texts, Anglo-Saxon texts, Register, Stategies for reading: traditional rules, metonymy, word-power, etc.
