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Temporal formulas in Serbian oral epic songs [PDF]
Balcanica, 2013 This paper seeks to present time as one of the most important parameters in epic songs, shown in the example of temporal formulas. Time also represents the principle of organizing section sequences in the song (linear, successive and ...
Perić Dragoljub Ž.
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Some types of introductory formulas in Greek klephtic (heroic) epic [PDF]
Balcanica, 2013 Certain types of introductory formulas typical of klephtic epic songs are synoptically demonstrated and analyzed. The introduction outlines the historical development of this category of folk songs, based on occasionally opposing views of ...
Mutavdžić Predrag J. +1 more
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Universals of Epic Formulas in the Yakut Olonkho and Shor Epic: Comparative Aspect [PDF]
Научный диалог, 2020 The article provides a comparative analysis of epic formulas from the Shor epic with similar constructions from the Yakut olonkho formed on the basis of rhythmic and syntactic parallelism.
Y. P. Borisov
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Presentation Formulas in South Slavic Epic Song [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2009 Ever since the pathfinding fieldwork of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, South Slavic oral epic song has supplied one of the principal points de repere for scholars interested in the study of oral, especially epic, traditions. 1 Parry traveled to the Balkans in the 1930s in search of a “living laboratory” in which to test his ideas about the oral and ...
David F. Elmer
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The return of epic formulas in various Italian translations of Kosovka djevojka (The Kosovo maiden) [PDF]
Balcanica, 2013 This paper makes a comparative analysis of the various Italian translations of the famous Serbian popular poem Kosovka djevojka [The Kosovo Maiden] and illustrates the different interpretations and consequent translations of epic formulas in ...
Bradaš Marija
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Explication of Concept THOUGHT in Epic Formulas Olonkho “Ala Bulkun” T. V. Zakharova-Chebiy [PDF]
Научный диалог, 2021 A study of epic formulas that explicate variations of the concept THOUGHT in the olonkho text of the narrator T. V. Zakharova-Chebiy “Ala Bulkun”, which refers to the early (pre-revolutionary) records of the Yakut epic, is carried out.
Yu. P. Borisov
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The Epic Scowl: A NOTE ON the Metonymic Basis and Contextual Meaning OF THE FORMULA ὑπόδρα ἰδών
Greece and Rome, 2022 Drawing on the perspectives of cognitive linguistics and evolutionary biology, this contribution revisits the meaning of the Homeric formula ὑπόδρα ἰδών, literally ‘looking from below’, which is generally acknowledged as an indication of anger in epic poetry.
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Generic Lacuna in the Epic Poems Using the Fog Formula
Balcanica, 2013 This article is about the modellative potential of a genre, i.e. about one of the main theoretical questions connected with the poetics of oral literature. This is exemplified here by Serbian oral decasyllabic epic poetry, more precisely by the modelling of the epic formula the ?appearance of the horseman/hero from/in the fog?.
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Concluding Formulas of Audience Address in Serbo-Croatian Oral Epic [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 1991 "As a special feature of Serbo-Croatian oral poems, audience address is formulaic to a great extent, so that one can posit a stock of traditional formulas and formulaic expressions. From the standpoint of theme, this stock is independent of the narrative structure of the poem, and, because it gives expression to general and generally accepted ideas ...
Marija Kleut
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Hyperboreus, 2023 This paper reviews the cases in which the heroic formulae of the Iliad appear in the non-heroic passages of the Odyssey, namely in the fight scenes in the Iliad, which are repeated in the scenes where the suitors throw different “missiles” at Odysseus (Od.
Elena Ermolaeva
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