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Basque Oral Poetry Championship [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2007 Imagine selling 13,025 tickets for oral poetry. Imagine further an entire 6-7 hours of live performances broadcast on regional television as they happen, with excerpts, summaries, and expert commentary on national television. Imagine a one-day event--the final act in a multistage, four-year, Olympian drama of qualification and elimination--galvanizing ...
John Miles Foley
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Deep digital poetry: Interrogating Tiv oral poetry within postmodernity
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017 Poetry is one of the most vibrant artistic forms for socio-economic and political reconstruction of society among the Tiv of North Central Nigeria. The poets fix themselves in the forefront of arousing and propagating cultural consciousness, exposing ...
Godwin Aondaofa Ikyer
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Oral Poetics and Homeric Poetry [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 2003 The concept of oral tradition, especially as we see it redefined in the work of Milman Parry (1971) and Albert Lord (espec. 1960/2000), has had a major impact on the understanding of Homer and Homeric poetry in the field of classics. Volume 1 of Greek Literature (Nagy 2001) features reprints of twenty studies illustrating this impact, along with an ...
Gregory Nagy
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Arrègulas: Oral Poetry and Minority Language Standardisation
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019 Arrègulas is a proposal for the standardisation of Campidanese Sardinian approved by the Province of Cagliari, in 2009. It began as a reaction to the promotion by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia of one Logudorese-based standard language (Limba Sarda ...
Rosangela Lai
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, 1988 Like three other authors in this issue, Jeff Opland has put his fieldwork, in this case principally among the Xhosa-speaking peoples of South Africa, to excellent use in his writings on oral tradition.
Opland, Jeff
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Mongolian Oral Epic Poetry: An Overview [PDF]
Oral Tradition, 1997 Mongolian tuuli, or epic poetry, the most important genre in Mongolian literary history, is a vast tradition of orally composed works. Accompanied by musical instruments such as the tobshur and the choor, tuuli relates these nomadic peoples' glorious ...
Chao Gejin
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The Semiotics of New Era Poetry: Estonian Instagram and Rap Poetry
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2021 Mikhail Gasparov concludes his monograph “A History of European Versification” with the recognition that in the development of particular verse forms in each tradition of poetry, there is a permanent interaction between two types of poetry: those of oral
Rebekka Lotman
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Allen Ginsberg and the Performance of Howl and Other Poems as Social Function [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd, 2023 This research discusses Ginsberg's use of improvisation to explain the major themes of his volume Howl and Other Poems such as “Howl,”(1954-1955) “Sunflower Sutra” (1955) “America,”(1956) and “Supermarket in California,”(1956) through his experimental ...
Ghada Mohamed Ali Mahran
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Poésie amphibie : le double état du poème
Itinéraires, 2023 If we accept that a poetic text becomes a poem at the precise moment when the aesthetic relationship between this text and someone who receives it is established, we can then ask a seemingly simple question: where do we find this “poem”?
Christophe Imperiali
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Histoire Épistémologie Langage, 2023 This paper deals with research on oral poetry in the early 20th century and more specifically on Jean Paulhan (1884-1968) and his work on traditional popular poetry in Madagascar; the linguistic anthropology developed by Marcel Jousse (1886-1961); and ...
Pierre-Yves Testenoire
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