Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Vol. III: Weddings of Smailagic Meho (Milman Parry Collection, Texts and Translation, Vol. 1) (Volume 3) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674801636 ISBN 13: 9780674801639

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1974

Synopsis

In researching this collection, Milman Parry set out to test the theories he had evolved on oral epic, theories that were to introduce a new era of Homeric scholarship. In the Balkans, one of the few areas where a living tradition of oral heroic poetry was still to be found, he observed firsthand how unlettered singers composed their poems, and collected more than 1200 hours of poetic performance from the most experienced bards. Comprising representative texts and translations from the Parry Collection, this series records the South Slavic tradition.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The song presented in translation in this volume is one of the two longest ever collected from Slavic oral epic tradition. Yet it is not only their length that makes these songs extraordinary; their excellence as heroic-romantic sung story and the seriousness of their intent as depictions of a glorious past raise them above the usual performances in the tradition to which they belong.

About the Author:

Parry was an assistant professor at Harvard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0674801636
• ISBN 13: 9780674801639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338