Oral Art Forms and Their Passage Into Writing Tapa dura - 2008

Hardback. New. The present collection examines the complex interrelationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualisation.

Minor wear. VG. Medieval Literature Museum Tusculanum Copenhagen 2008 orig. boards 24x16cm, vi,241 pages. Contains 15 papers. Includes: From Tradition to Literature in the Sagas; Orality Harnessed: How to Read Written Sagas from an Oral Culture?; On the Possibility of an Oral Background for Gísla saga Súrssonar; The Oral- Formulaic Theory Revisited; From Vernacular Interviews to Latin Prose (ca. 600–1200); Orality and Literacy in Medieval East Central Europe: Final Prolegomena; Oral and Written Art Forms in Serbian Medieval Literature; Ealdgesegena worn: What is the Old English Beowulf Tells Us about Oral Forms; The Scandinavian Medieval Ballad: From Oral Tradition to Written Texts and Back Again; Apocalypse Now? The Draumkvæde and Visionary Literature; The Eddic Form and Its Contexts: An Oral Art Form Performed in Writing; What Have We Lost by Writing? Cognitive Archaisms in Skaldic Poetry; The Dialogue between Audience and Text: The Variants in Verse Citations in… Leer más