Chao Gejin

Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Yanjun, Liang

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume charts the development of the genre over the course of the twentieth century, traces the formation of theoretical systems, and introduces the author's own explorations of the 20th-century Mongolian bard Arimpil's singing of his native epic poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000529852
• Artikelnr.: 63034142

Autorenporträt

Chao Gejin is a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Being a folklorist and literary critic, he focuses on folkloristics and literature, oral traditions in particular.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Critical Reflections on Epic Studies. 1. Homer to Arimpil: The
Pardigm Shift in International Epic Studies. 2. The History of Epic
Research. 3. Current Issues in Epic Research. 4. John Miles Foley and
Recent Research Trends on Oral Traditions. 5 Gregory Nagy: From the Homeric
Question to Homeric Questions. 6. Lauri Honko: The Identity Function of
Epic Poetry. Part II Theories and Methods of Oral Poetics. 7. Oral Poetics
and the Oral Formulaic Theory. 8. Field Investigations of Oral Epic
Transmission. 9. Oral Poetics and Chinese Epic Research: Interview with the
Author. 10. Types of Oral Epic Texts: A Mongol Case Study. 11. "Returning
to the Voice": Textual research of Oral Epics as a Starting Point. 12. "How
Long is Long": Epic Length. Part III Indigenous Research on Mongolian Oral
Poetics. 13. Mongolian Oral Epic Poetry. 14. The Oirat Epic Cycle of
Jangar. 15. Analysis of Mongolian Epic Formulae. 16. Analysis of Mongolian
Epic Prosody. Part IV Comparative Study of Four Epic Traditions. 17.
Challenges in Comparative Oral Epic (Co-authored with Miles Foley)