Lord Albert Bates (99 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Cornell University Press, 1991. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Cornell University Press, 1991. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wraps (PB) in very good condition with small folds to two cover corners. Contains George Gibran (Dostoevsky's Use of Russian Folklore) Bransilav Rusic (Mute Language in the Tradition and Oral Literature of the South Slavs); Boris Kremenliev (Bulgarian Folksongs); Elizsabeth Stenbrok-Fermor (Story of Van'ka Kain); Roman Jackson. 132 pages.…

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1st edition. 8vo. xii + 262pp. Original mauve cloth, lightly faded spine with red title patch lettered in gilt. ISBN 0801424720 US$13.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Red boards with illustration and red spin with silver lettering. Binding is tight. Corners are sharp. Content is clen. No markings. No shelf wear. Includes: Table of Contents, List of Color Plates. 196 p., [16] leaves of plates in Color. Sandglass Number X: 37. Slipcase, black cardboard with light sun-faded along bottom edge. Etchemendy, Teje (illustrator). …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Lilac cloth boards, no notable wear; Pages crisp, no ownership marks or annotation; Binding tight. Albert Bates Lord (1912-1991) was a professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard University, primarily known for his work on epic poetry and association with American Classicist Milman Parry. ; Myth And Poetics; 6.25 x 9.25"; 280 pages.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good, slight tropical speckling to top Page Edges, otherwise clean, clear text in tight binding. No marks or inscriptions. 280pp. Dimensions 6 x 9 in. Weight 16 oz. Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Incredible breadth and depth of scholarship. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek Digenis Akritas and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish Kalevala, and the Bulgarian oral epic. The work of one of the most respected scholars of his generation, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of myth and folklore, classicists, medievalists, Slavists, comparatists, literary theorists, and anthropologists. "A welcome publication . . . . The book contains eleven of his most important previously published articles and two studies which have not been published before . . . . There is something to be learned from every one of these studies."¿Classical Journal.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff yellow wraps, lettered in black. Mild shelf/handling wear, covers lightly soiled. Firm binding, clean interior. viii,132 pp. Scarce. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

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