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基本説明
Translated by Kathy Murphy-Judy. Provides a penetrating analytical study of the sources of orality and contemporary modes of poetic practice.
Full Description
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, etc.); and oral ritual actions from archaic times to the present.
Contents
Poetic orality - defining the field, the arena of the debate, inventory; the forms - forms and genres, the epic, at the level of the text; the performance - a circumstantial discourse, the vocal work, the vocal work II, the presence of the body; roles and functions - the interpreter, the audience, duration and memory, rite and action.
