Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context Finnegan, Ruth H

A very nice clean & tight copy. 299 pp.

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Provides an introduction to 'oral poetry, ' ranging from American folksongs, Eskimo lyrics, and modern popular songs to medieval oral literature, the heroic poems of Homer, and the epic compositions in Asia and the Pacific. This book employs a comparative perspective, to consider oral poetry from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe and America

Product Info

ISBN: 0253207088

ISBN-13: 9780253207081

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Year: 1992-04-01

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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