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Mahri Oral Poetry and Arabic Nabaṭī Poetry: Common core, divergent outcomes
The collections and critical studies of Bedouin vernacular poetry from the Arabian Peninsula (nabaṭī poetry) published over the last century have revealed it to be a dynamic cultural practice whose regional specificities are secondary to its overall ...
Samuel Liebhaber
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Importance of Oral Ritual Calendric Poetry
Calendric lyric poetry as a folk tradition plays an important role in ethnic cultures. It is an area where cultural researchers, anthropologist and sociologists find answers to a lot of questions. Oral folk tradition in general and calendric lyric poetry
Atdhe Hykolli, Seniha Krasniqi
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Images of Amhara women in oral poetry
The objective of this article is to describe thematic images of Amhara women in oral poetry. The study is based on field research conducted in rural areas of Western Gojjam and Awi Zone.
Berhanu Asaye Agajie
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An acoustic study of vocal expression in two genres of Yoruba oral poetry
This pilot study proposes an acoustic study of the vocal expressions in Ìjálá and Ẹ̀sà, two genres of Yorùbá oral poetry. For this study, we conducted an experiment, involving the vocalization of an original poem in speech mode, Ìjálá and Ẹ̀sà.
Samuel K. Akinbo +3 more
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Basque Oral Poetry Championship [PDF]
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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Oral Poetics and Homeric Poetry [PDF]
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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The Semiotics of New Era Poetry: Estonian Instagram and Rap Poetry
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]
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
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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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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