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Extemporaneous Oral Poetry in Central Italy
Folklore, 1982A TRADITION of improvized oral poetry is still relatively widespread in the rural areas of the Tyrrenic side of Central Italy.' This tradition, not very well documented in the specialized literature, is based on the metre of the classic Italian chivalric epic poems, an eight-line stanza called the ottava rima ('octave rhyme'), as a canvas for ...
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Nabaṭi Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1988S. Somekh +3 more
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Poetry and Oral Historiography: An Analysis of the Boorana Oral Chronicle in Southern Ethiopia
2018In this paper, through analysing oral traditions of the Boorana in southern Ethiopia, I describe how people without a writing tradition construct and preserve history. I compare an oral text, the Boorana Oral Chronicle, which I collected from Boorana informants living in different regions, and present a statistical analysis of narrative categories and ...
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