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Article: Textualization of Oral Epics / The Oral ...
Journal of American Folklore;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Textualization of Oral Epics. Ed. Lauri Honko ... Pp. vii + 397.) The Oral Epic: Performance and Music ... to Textualization of Oral Epics, the movement in epic ... studies. Textualization of Oral Epics is a selection of essays ...

Article: Oral Epics from Africa; Vibrant Voices from a Vast ...
Journal of Asian and African Studies;  August 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... Stephen Belcher (Eds), Oral Epics from Africa; Vibrant Voices ... content but the nature of oral epic performance as well. The ... the performative nature of oral epic: The excerpt from the "Epic ... communicate the nature of oral epic performance as it occurs on ...

Article: Holt Releases New African American Literature Text Filled with ...
Business Wire;  December 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... content make it easier to grasp the impressive span of the African American literature, which is arranged chronologically from oral epics out of Africa to contemporary hip hop culture. "The youth of today see African American artifacts and culture but they don ...

Article: Highlands oral epics in danger of being lost.
Vietnamese News Agency;  March 20, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Ha Noi, March 20 (VNA) -- After nearly a decade of investigation, Vietnamese reseachers have found an unexpected treasure in the form of epics handed down from generation to generation in families from Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands). However, a shortage of indigenous translators is delaying the

Article: Elder Brothers Story: An Oral Epic of Tamil.
Asian Folklore Studies;  October 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... number of interesting linguistic problems, including dialect and genre-specific features, some familiar from other Tamil oral epics. In general, however, the published (dictated) text - especially the prose passages - reflects an unusually elevated ...

Article: The Hindi Oral Epic Tradition: Bhojpuri Loriki.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  April 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... series of texts recorded by Shyam Manohar Pandey, being preceded by The Hindi Oral Epic Loriki (1979), The Hindi Oral Epic Canaini (1982) and The Hindi Oral Epic Lorikayan (1987). This Bhojpuri version, performed by the singer Sivnath ...

Article: Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an ...
Western Folklore;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition. By Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (Ithaca & London ... with the questions of whether the epic is a single unified oral epic or a cycle of tales held together by a traditional frame story ...