Oral Poetry Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context

Name: Oral Poetry Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context
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ISBN: 9780253207081

ISBN-10: 0253207088

ISBN-13: 9780253207081

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ruth H. Finnegan

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This classic study is an introduction to Òoral poetry,Ó a broad subject which Ruth Finnegan interprets as ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and recent epic compositions in Asia and the Pacific. The book employs a wide comparative perspective, to consider oral poetry from Africa, Asia, and Oceania as well as Europe and America. The results of FinneganÕs vast research suggest fresh approaches to many current controversies: the nature of oral tradition and oral composition; the notion of a special oral style; possible connections between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 287
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface to the Midland Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Acknowledgements



Introductory



Some Approaches to the Study of Oral Poetry



Composition



Style and Performance



Transmission, Distribution and Publication



Poets and Their Positions



Audience, Context and Function



Poetry and Society


Concluding Comment


References


Index