Traditional Oral Epic |
Preface |
![]() | One Traditional Oral Poetics |
• | Contemporary Issues |
• | A Program for Reading Traditional Texts |
• | Application of The Program: Approaches to Reading Five Traditional Texts |
![]() | Two Comparability of the Documents |
• | The Journey of the Homeric Texts |
![]() | The Riddle of Cotton Vitellius A. XV. |
• | Manuscript Authority |
• | Implications for Comparative Analysis |
![]() | The Yugoslav Guslari and Their Tradition |
![]() | The Guslari of Stolac |
• | Ibrahim Basic |
• | Halil Bajgoric : |
• | Mujo Kukuruzovic |
• | The Parry Collection Texts Used for Comparison |
![]() | Three Comparative Prosody |
• | Prologus |
• | Method |
• | The Indo-European Question |
• | Prosody and Prosodies |
• | Prosody and Formulaic Structure: Their Interrelationship |
![]() | The Homeric Hexameter |
• | Outer Metric |
• | Inner Metric |
• | Summary of Inner Metric |
![]() | The Junacki Deseterac (Heroic Decasyllable) |
• | Outer Metric |
![]() | Inner Metric |
• | Caesura |
• | Colon 2 and The Shape of The verse |
• | Colon 1 |
• | Summary: The Deseterac |
![]() | The Old English Alliterative Line |
• | The Beginnings: Sievers and Some Basic Principles |
• | The Idiosyncratic Nature of Old English Meter |
• | The Metrical Foundation |
• | Patterns and Systems |
• | Prosody and Composition |
• | Coda |
![]() | Four Traditional Phraseology in the Odyssey |
• | The Formula: Original Concepts And Developments |
• | A Tradition-Dependent Homeric Phraseology |
![]() | Two Phraseological Analyses |
• | Formulaic Structure and Epea Pteroenta ("Winged Words") |
• | Odyssey 5.424-44: Formulaic Structure and Traditional Rules |
• | Discussion of the Passage |
• | Conclusion |
![]() | Five Traditional Phraseology in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
• | Albert Lord and the Concept of the Formula in Serbo-Croatian Oral Epic |
![]() | A Classical Formulaic Analysis of Two Parry-Lord Texts |
• | Text 1 |
• | Text 2 |
![]() | The Spectrum of Formulaic Diction |
• | The Complexity of the Phraseology |
• | Synchrony, Diachrony, and the Deseterac |
![]() | From Prosody to Traditional Rules |
• | Deseterac Rules and the Diction |
![]() | Examples of Traditional Composition from the Stolac Guslari |
• | Mujo Kukuruzovic |
• | Halil Bajgoric |
• | Summary |
![]() | Six Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
• | From Prosody to Formulaic Structure |
• | The Spectrum of Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf |
• | Grendel's Approach to Heorot and Traditional Structure |
![]() | Analysis |
• | Quantitative Analysis |
• | Traditional Rules: A Summary |
![]() | Seven Thematic Structure in the Odyssey |
• | Prior Scholarship |
• | Expectable Phraseological Makeup |
![]() | Three Thematic Analyses |
• | The Bath |
• | The Greeting Theme |
• | The Feast Theme |
![]() | Eight Thematic Structure in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
• | Prior Scholarship |
• | A Singer's Pause and Thematic Structure |
![]() | Multiformity Within the Traditional Theme: "Shouting in Prison" |
![]() | Mujo Kukuruzovic and the Idiolectal Theme |
• | Motif # 1 |
• | Motif #2 |
• | Motif #3 |
• | Motif #4 |
![]() | From Idiolect to Dialect: The Individual Singers Community |
• | Motif #1 |
• | Motif #2 |
• | Motif #4 |
• | From Dialect to Language: The Stolac singers and the Epic Tradition |
• | Conclusion |
![]() | Nine Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
![]() | Prior Research |
• | Origins |
• | A Brief Summary of Scholarship |
• | Current Issues |
• | The Tradition-Dependent Nature of Old English Themes |
![]() | Two Example Themss |
• | The Sea Voyage in Beowulf |
• | The Scourging Scent in Andreas |
• | The Relationship Between Phraseology and Narrative Structure |
![]() | Ten Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
• | A Singer's Error |
• | The Return Song |
![]() | The Singers and Their Songs |
![]() | Ibro Basic and the Alagic Alija and Velagic Selim |
• | The General Plot of AAVS |
• | The Story-Pattern of AAVS |
![]() | Mujo Kukuruzovic and the Extended Return Song |
• | The OA and AA Songs |
• | The General Plot of AA/OA, Section 1 |
• | The Story-Pattern of AA/OA, Section I |
• | Kukuruzovic's Error: a First Approximation |
• | OA, Section II: Story and Story-Pattern |
• | AA, Section: Story and Stoy-Pattern |
• | The AA/OA: Its Fundamental Form |
• | Conclusion |
Eleven Conclusion |
![]() | Appendix |
• | Supporting Evidence for Analysis of Text I (examples only) |
• | Supporting Evidence for Analysis of Text II (examples only) |
References |
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