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Article: Myth and Poetics Series: The Singer Resumes the Tale.
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- Asian Folklore Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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"This is Albert B. Lord's book," says its editor in the preface (xi). Most of it was written by Lord himself, and Mary Louise Lord made every attempt to bring it close to what her husband had planned. The book consists often chapters, two of which were unpublished lectures (chapters 4 and 8). Three other chapters (5, 7, and 10) consist of lectures and parts of lectures that Lord regarded as preparation for the work he long intended as a sequel to The Singer of Tales.
The book is a clear reflection of Lord's belief in literary criticism based closely upon the text. This is discernible in the meticulous textual analyses of passages from Anglo-Saxon poetry and South ...