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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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Voices from the Past: compositional approaches to using recorded speech [PDF]
, 2006 This paper investigates some of the ways in which composers and sound artists have used recordings of speech, especially in works mediated by technology.
Lane, Cathy
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Echo, not quotation: what conversation analysis reveals about classroom responses to heard poetry [PDF]
, 2012 This article applies conversation analysis to classroom talk-in-interaction where pupils respond to poetry they have heard. The phenomenon of repeating in discussion details from the poem, including patterns of delivery, is considered and named echo to ...
Gordon, John
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The Orality of a Silent Age: The Place of Orality in Medieval Studies [PDF]
, 2008 '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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[Review of] Bienvenido L. Lumbera. Tagalog Poetry: 1570-1898 [PDF]
, 1991 Bienvenido Lumbera, in his Preface to this survey of Tagalog poetry, apologizes for the shortcomings of his book. Originally written twenty years ago as a doctoral dissertation, it does not take into account new information on Tagalog poetry and its ...
Skinner, Cruz
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El auge de la nueva poesía oral. El caso del Poetry Slam [PDF]
, 2012 Mientras que en sus orígenes y durante mucho tiempo la poesía se ligó a un tipo de cultura oral y popular, en la actualidad la poesía ha pasado a ser un género literario escrito y dirigido, generalmente, a un público minoritario y selecto.
Martínez Cantón, Clara Isabel
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[Review of] Mazisi Kunene. The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain [PDF]
, 1984 Mazisi Kunene is admirably qualified to transmit both the traditional and his original Zulu poetry to an anglophone audience. He is a scholar and a performer of Zulu oral folk poetry.
Bruner, Charlotte H.
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Written out, writing in : orature in the South African literary canon [PDF]
, 2008 As described by Duncan Brown, South African orature represents "our truly original contribution to world literature" (Brown, Voicing the Text 1). This paper explores how orature might be successfully 'written into' the South African literary canon whilst
Seddon, Deborah Ann
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The poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena [PDF]
, 2013 Many linguists refuse to believe that poetic and especially metrical - texts can provide reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena. In this article, I show that the Medieval Greek poetry represents an exception.
Soltic, Jorie
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Sistem Isnād Hadīts Dan Awal Mula Penggunaannya Dalam Tradisi Periwayatan Puisi Arab Jahiliyah [PDF]
, 2011 It is ordinary that riwāyah (oral transmission) has been the main media in transmitting knowledge. Indeed, for the Arabs, the transmission system was used not only in transmitting hadits, but also in transmitting the history. In terms of the transmission
Ahmad, L. T. (Lalu)
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