Albert Lord (1912–1991)
Author of The Singer of Tales
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Works by Albert Lord
Beginning Serbocroatian 2 copies
Slavic Folklore: A Symposium 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Lord, Albert
- Legal name
- Lord, Albert Bates
- Birthdate
- 1912-09-15
- Date of death
- 1991-07-29
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Education
- Harvard University (AB - Classics, PhD - Comparative Literature)
- Occupations
- professor (Slavic and Comparative Literature)
literary scholar - Organizations
- Harvard University
- Short biography
- His wife, Mary Louise, taught classics at Connecticut College; they had two sons, Nathan and Mark.
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The singer of tales by Albert Bates Lord
Fascinating book requiring careful reading. Shows how 'authorship' and composition before blank paper are recent and relative modes of creation whereas for thousands of years ( or more?) some humans have stirred a public much the way jazz musicians may do nowadays. And how the two oral poems we "possess" in written form, named 'Illiad' and 'Odyssee' , came to be put down — no full answer to that.
Orig. publ. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1960
Edition: // Descr: xv, 309 p. 24 cm. // Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature Volume 24 Call No. { } Contains Appendixes, Notes, and Index. // John E. Rexine Library Donation //
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