Oral Poetry: An Introduction (Theory and History of Literature)
by Paul Zumthor
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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 duration of oral poetry in time and space, show more etc.); and oral ritual actions from archaic times to the present. show lessTags
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Paul Zumthor taught at the University of Montreal from 1972 until his retirement in 1980. He is the author of many books of literary criticism and history
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- Original title
- Introduction à la poésie orale
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Nonfiction, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 801.951 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Philosophy and theory Nature and character Literary theory and criticism Theory Of Poetry
- LCC
- PN4151 .Z8513 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Oratory. Elocution, etc.
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- English, French, Italian, Portuguese
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