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Epic Singers And Oral Tradition

de Albert Bates Lord

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions, Albert Bates Lord here concentrates on the epic singers and their art as manifested in texts or performance.
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Poetry In Speech - Orality And Homeric Discourse

de Egbert J. Bakker

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of...
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Past Looking - Historical Imagination And The Rhetoric Of The Image

de Michael Ann Holly

156,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product of a dynamic exchange between past and present. recent theory emphasizes the subjectivity of the historian and the ways in which any...
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Gender And Genre In The Folklore Of Middle India

de Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on womenâ€™s rituals, she looks at the...
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The "Odyssey" In Athens - Myths Of Cultural Origins

de Erwin F. Cook

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A study in poetic interaction, The "Odyssey" in Athens explores the ways in which narrative structure and parallels within and between epic poems create or disclose meaning. Erwin F. Cook also broadens the scope of this intertextual approach to include...
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Mothers In Mourning

de Nicole Loraux

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 "Nicole Loraux brilliantly elucidates how Athenian politics were 'gendered' in the Classical period. She investigates the Athenian state's interdiction of ritualized mourning by women, in a city where public mourning constituted a vital act of civic...
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Singers, Heroes, And Gods In The "Odyssey"

de Charles Segal

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns...
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Helen Of Troy And Her Shameless Phantom

de Norman Austin

67,59€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys...
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Heroic Sagas And Ballads

de Stephen A. Mitchell

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia.
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Epic Singers And Oral Tradition

de Albert Bates Lord

140,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions, Albert Bates Lord here concentrates on the epic singers and their art as manifested in texts or performance.
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The Ravenous Hyenas And The Wounded Sun - Myth And Ritual In Ancient India

de Stephanie W. Jamison

67,59€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Jamison addresses the conditions that have limited our understanding of Vedic myth and ritual, such as the profusion and obscurity of the texts and the tendency on the part of scholars to approach mythology and ritual independently.
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Greek Mythology And Poetics

de Gregory Nagy

64,89€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage...
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Gender And Genre In The Folklore Of Middle India

de Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

20,27€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on womenâ€™s rituals, she looks at the...
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes - The Ethnography Of Performance In An Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

de Dwight F. Reynolds

17,56€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and...
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Poetry In Speech - Orality And Homeric Discourse

de Egbert J. Bakker

20,27€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of...
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Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes - The Ethnography Of Performance In An Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

de Dwight F. Reynolds

6,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and...
INGLÊS

Gender And Genre In The Folklore Of Middle India

de Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

6,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on womenâ€™s rituals, she looks at the...
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Poetry In Speech - Orality And Homeric Discourse

de Egbert J. Bakker

6,63€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study of oral poetry beyond the landmark work of...
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Heroic Sagas And Ballads

de Stephen A. Mitchell

25,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia.
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Phrasikleia - An Anthropology Of Reading In Ancient Greece

de Jesper Svenbro

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 First published in French in 1988, this extraordinary book traces the meaning and function of reading from its very beginnings in Greek oral culture through the development of silent reading. One of the most haunting early examples of Greek...
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The Mute Immortals Speak - Pre-Islamic Poetry And The Poetics Of Ritual

de Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature...
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The Ravenous Hyenas And The Wounded Sun - Myth And Ritual In Ancient India

de Stephanie W. Jamison

43,26€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Jamison addresses the conditions that have limited our understanding of Vedic myth and ritual, such as the profusion and obscurity of the texts and the tendency on the part of scholars to approach mythology and ritual independently.
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The Mirror Of Antiquity - American Women And The Classical Tradition, 1750â€“1900

de Caroline Winterer

29,73€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
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Ariadne'S Thread - A Guide To International Stories In Classical Literature

de William Hansen

50,02€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 From Cinderella to The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Dragon Slayer to the Judgment of Solomon, certain legends, myths, and folktales are part of the oral tradition in countries around the world. In addition to their pervasiveness, these stories show an...
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