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Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
Traditional Oral Epic The Odyssey Beowulf and the SerboCroatian Return Song
Author: John Miles Foley
John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520064096
ISBN-10: 0520064097
Publication Date: 1/1/1991
Pages: 424
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Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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