Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays colle…
Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays colle…
An interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. It addresses the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualising orature and orality, simulations of th…
Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance practitioners, w…
An interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. It addresses the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualising orature and orality, simulations of th…
Comprehensive anthology of fairy tales which are written especially for adults, in English.