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Serbocroatian Heroic Songs: Volume 14: Bihaćka Krajina: Epics from Bihać, Cazin, and Kulen Vakuf
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Description for Serbocroatian Heroic Songs: Volume 14: Bihaćka Krajina: Epics from Bihać, Cazin, and Kulen Vakuf
Hardback. Editor(s): Parry, Milman; Lord, Albert Bates. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1000.
This limited edition contains the critical texts of eight long oral epics from four bards of northern Bosnia, the northern most predominantly Muslim district in Europe. Sung with the accompaniment of the picked tambura rather than the bowed gusle that is familiar elsewhere in the Yugoslav tradition, the epos in northern Bosnia was often strophic or stanzaic rather than stichic. This volume is the first publication in the more than century-old scholarship on South Slavic oral traditions to take note of that fact, and to document it with specific texts. The editor's Prolegomena include detailed discussions of the principles of ... Read more
This limited edition contains the critical texts of eight long oral epics from four bards of northern Bosnia, the northern most predominantly Muslim district in Europe. Sung with the accompaniment of the picked tambura rather than the bowed gusle that is familiar elsewhere in the Yugoslav tradition, the epos in northern Bosnia was often strophic or stanzaic rather than stichic. This volume is the first publication in the more than century-old scholarship on South Slavic oral traditions to take note of that fact, and to document it with specific texts. The editor's Prolegomena include detailed discussions of the principles of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
530
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Condition
New
Weight
999 g
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674801653
SKU
V9780674801653
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