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Medieval Oral Literature
Author | : Karl Reichl |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2011-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110241129 |
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Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.
Writing the Oral Tradition
Author | : Mark Amodio |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UOM:39015059233950 |
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"This is a splendid, rewarding book destined to reshape critical thinking about medieval poetry in English. Amodio combines groundbreaking theory with a deep, wide-ranging command of relevant scholarship to offer a uniquely inclusive perspective on an enormous and disparate collection of Old and Middle English poetry." --John Miles Foley, University of Missouri, Columbia "This is a well-conceived, well-structured, and well-written book that fills a significant gap in current scholarly discourse. Amodio is extremely well-informed about current oral theory, and presents a beautifully integrated thesis. This clear-sighted and provocative book both promises and delivers much." --Andy Orchard, University of Toronto Mark Amodio's book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living tradition articulated only through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers came to find expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Amodio argues that the expressive economy of oral poetics survives in written texts because, throughout the Middle Ages, literacy and orality were interdependent, not competing, cultural forces. After delving into the background of the medieval oral-literate matrix, Writing the Oral Tradition develops a model of non-performative oral poetics that is a central, perhaps defining, component of Old English vernacular verse. Following the Norman Conquest, oral poetics lost its central position and became one of many ways to articulate poetry. Contrary to many scholars, Amodio argues that oral poetics did not disappear but survived well into the post-Conquest period. It influenced the composition of Middle English verse texts produced from the twelfth to the fourteenth century because it offered poets an affectively powerful and economical way to articulate traditional meanings. Indeed, fragments of oral poetics are discoverable in contemporary prose, poetics, and film as they continue to faithfully emit their traditional meanings.
The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition
Author | : Gísli Sigurðsson |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015059175995 |
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This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, G sli Sigur sson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures. Sigur sson examines how orally trained lawspeakers regarded the emergent written culture, especially in light of the fact that the writing down of the law in the early twelfth century undermined their social status. Part II considers characters, genealogies, and events common to several sagas from the east of Iceland between which a written link cannot be established. Part III explores the immanent or mental map provided to the listening audience of the location of Vinland by the sagas about the Vinland voyages. Finally, this volume focuses on how accepted foundations for research on medieval texts are affected if an underlying oral tradition (of the kind we know from the modern field work) is assumed as part of their cultural background. This point is emphasized through the examination of parallel passages from two sagas and from mythological overlays in an otherwise secular text.
The Oral Tradition in the Early Middle Ages
Author | : Michael Richter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | : IND:30000045701087 |
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Vox Intexta
Author | : Alger Nicolaus Doane,Carol Braun Pasternack |
Publsiher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0299130940 |
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Addresses the questions of how medieval textuality intersected with language production that was, or pretended to be, oral, and whether postmodern notions of textuality can deal adequately with the subject. The 13 essays were presented to an April 1988 conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Paper edition (unseen), $23.50. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Medieval Insular Literature Between the Oral and the Written II
Author | : Hildegard L. C. Tristram |
Publsiher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : British literature |
ISBN | : 3823354078 |
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages
Author | : Jesse Gellrich |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501740718 |
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This book assess the relationship of literature to various other cultural forms in the Middle Ages. Jesse M. Gellrich uses the insights of such thinkers as Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida to explore the continuity of medieval ideas about speaking, writing, and texts.
Oral History of the Middle Ages
Author | : Gerhard Jaritz,Michael Richter |
Publsiher | : Ceu Medievalia |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015061025790 |
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