Oral art forms and their passage into writing /
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| Imprint: | Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum, 2008. |
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| Description: | vi, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6807099 |
Table of Contents:
- From Tradition to Literature in the Sagas
- Orality harnessed with a quill in hand -- How to read written sagas from an oral culture
- On the Possibility of an Oral Background for Gísla saga Súrssonar
- The oral-formulaic theory revisited
- From vernacular interviews to Latin prose
- Literacy in Medieval East-Central Europe -- Final prolegomena
- Oral and Written Art Forms in Serbian Literature (Genres, Motifs, Heroes, Narrative Models, Style, Formulas, Interference, Transitional Forms)
- 'Ealdgesagena worn' (a multitude of ancient stories -- What the Old English 'Beowulf' tells us about Oral Art Forms
- The Scandinavian medieval ballad -- from oral tradition to written texts -- and back again
- Apocalypse Now? The Draumkvæde as Visionary Literature
- The Eddic form and its contexts
- What have we lost by writing? -- Cognitive archaisms in Scaldic poetry
- The dialogue between the audience and the text -- The variants in verse citations in Njáls saga's manuscripts
- Change between oratio tecta and oratio obliqua -- a sign for orality or literacy?
- Oral or scribal variations in Voluspá. A case study in Old Norse poetry
