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Quality
This copy was crisp and like new with the cdrom included things have gotten so much better since i was in grad school
The sound quality is that of the actual recordings and has not been cleaned up or otherwise enhanced
For those with the right software it is also possible to see an actual short film of a traditional singer performing and bela b... Read More
Price
So if it fits your budget and the price is quite reasonable despite my stickershock when i remember what i had paid for a copy ... Read More
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oral, material, second, epic and most. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 21 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 29 2022.
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Lords work—and that of milman parry with which it is so tightly interconnected—is so helpful because it not merely sets out a model of creation in performance based on literary analysis but then proceeds to test that model through actual fieldwork on living oral cultures
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Anyone interested in homer or balkan traditional epic should know the book
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Part one looks in detail on the oralformulaic form of composition and performance where the line between these two is blurry at best but may be better described as nonexistent
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I did notice a couple logical errors in the book but none worth deducting any stars
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When we look at other works including beowulf we indeed see large numbers of references to other stories
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Moreover calvert watkins how to kill a dragon aspects of indoeuropean poetics shows indexical purposes for such references throughout early indoeuropean poetry in general
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However these issues are minor
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No author can be right all the time and we shouldnt expect it
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