Oral Poetry: An Introduction Volume 70

by Paul Zumthor

Book Overview

This book aims to provide an analytical study of the sources, the art and the presentation of oral, or spoken, poetry. Paul Zumthor, a literary theorist, discusses the development of oral poetry from antiquity to the present in all its aspects: the forms of oral poetry; the epic in the West, Africa and other parts of the globe; styles of performance across the world; roles played in oral poetry (the poet as interpreter, the listeners, the variable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816617252
• ISBN13: 9780816617258
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"