The place of the symbolic city in construction of national imagery: A case of Balkan folklore - two models of epic city [PDF]
This article is based on folklore studies of oral epic tradition in the Serb-Croat (or, depending on territory, Croat-Serbian) language which was common to the majority of former Yugoslavia population (in fact, all but Slovenes and Macedonians).
Detelić Mirjana I.
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Le rire dans la littérature gréco-romaine
In this article, we will review the manifestations of laughter in Greek and Roman literature: myth, epic, comedy and satirical poetry. This research investigates the typologies and the functions of laughter in oral literature, in this case the epic, but ...
Warda Derdour
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Au contraire de l'opposition classique entre le lyrisme et l'épopée (opposition portée à l'extrême par quelques poètes et critiques contemporains qui non seulement identifient le lyrisme à la poésie même, mais pensent que la poésie moderne est plus près ...
Meschonnic, Henri
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‘Still finest wits are stilling Venus Rose’: Robert Southwell's ‘Optima Deo’, Venus and Adonis, and Tasso's canto della rosa [PDF]
It has been argued, with reference to Venus and Adonis, that Shakespeare is the poet targeted specifically by Robert Southwell in his mournful stanza on love poetry in ‘The Author to the Reader’; this essay argues instead that Southwell's remark has a ...
Lawrence, Jason
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Combinations of Tense Forms in Serbian Folk Epic Poetry
In this paper the author is dealing with combinations of tense forms in Serbian folk epic poetry and he statistically proves that the present tense is the predominant tense form in this kind of Serbian folk poetry.
MILOSAV Ź. ĆARKIĆ
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THE PLOT OF HUSBAND’S RETURN TO HIS WIFE’S WEDDING IN "THE ODYSSEY" BY HOMER AND IN THE SLAVIC AND RUSSIAN EPIC [PDF]
The article analyzes the plot of husband’s return to his wife’s wedding embodied both in the millenary Ancient epic literature represented by the "Odyssey" of Homer, and in the Russian and Slavic epic.
Tatyana G. Malchukova
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The Image of the Horse in the Epic Genres of Folklore of the Peoples of Dagestan
The article discusses the features of the image of the horse in folklore genres of the peoples of Dagestan - in epic poetry and fairy tales. As the material shows, the horse is represented in them according to their genre principles.
F. A. Alieva
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A Comparative Look at the Position of Horse in the Epic of Shahnameh and Antara’s Book of Epic Poetry [PDF]
Undoubtedly, epics reflect the flow of events, elements, and natural and supernatural creatures in human’s life. The interference and accompaniment of the live elements of nature alongside the epic tools have reflected very beautiful images of the ...
Mina Pirzadnia +2 more
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
'The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies' uses a brief survey of current work on Old English poetry as the point of departure for arguing that although useful, the concepts of orality and literacy have, in medieval studies ...
Hall, Alaric
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Generic lacuna in the epic poems using the fog formula [PDF]
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.
Detelić Mirjana
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