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17%OFFHardback - Serbocroatian Heroic Songs: Volume 6: Bijelo Polje: Three Texts from Avdo Međedović: Ženidba Vlahinjić Alije, Osmanbeg Delibegović i Pavičević Luka - 9780674801660 - V9780674801660
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Serbocroatian Heroic Songs: Volume 6: Bijelo Polje: Three Texts from Avdo Međedović: Ženidba Vlahinjić Alije, Osmanbeg Delibegović i Pavičević Luka

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Description for Serbocroatian Heroic Songs: Volume 6: Bijelo Polje: Three Texts from Avdo Međedović: Ženidba Vlahinjić Alije, Osmanbeg Delibegović i Pavičević Luka Hardback. Editor(s): Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert Bates. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, ports.,sample. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1000.

The Wedding of Vlahinjic Alija represents a unique experiment in field collecting of oral traditional epic poetry. In order to determine whether and exactly how the text of a long epic would change as the best of oral poets told and retold it, Milman Parry first made a complete audio-recording of Avdo Međedović singing this long heroic narrative, and then some days later had the entire epic taken down again by dictation from the same singer.

Both texts, the sung (6053 verses) and the dictated (5883 verses) are presented in this volume, showing precisely the effects both of recomposition ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674801660
SKU
V9780674801660
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