Parry Milman (51 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. This limited edition contains the critical texts of eight long oral epics from four bards of northern Bosnia, the northern most predominantly Muslim district in Europe. Sung with the accompaniment of the picked tambura rather than the bowed gusle that is familiar elsewhere in the Yugoslav tradition, the epos in northern Bosnia was often strophic or stanzaic rather than stichic. This volume is the first publication in the more than century-old scholarship on South Slavic oral traditions to take note of that fact, and to document it with specific texts. The editor's Prolegomena include detailed discussions of the principles of rhythm in this epos, the sources of the tales in it, and extensive comparative commentaries linking the eight narratives with those found in other Yugoslav towns, especially with the tradition of Avdo Mededovic at Bijelo Polje.…

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Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. An extraction of pages 179-197 from the Transactions of the American Philological Association, Vol. LXIV, 1933. light toning, soiling. unmarked. solid.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 338 pages. 9.30x6.20x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 529 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Clean, unmarked, and possibly unread. This volume collects for the first time the works--articles, M.A. thesis, dissertations, and journal extracts--of Milman Parry, whose death at thirty-three brought to a precipitous end the career of one of the leading classical scholars of our century.…

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Condition: Good. paperback. Text block, wrappers and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped.

Hardback. Condition: New. This limited edition contains the critical texts of eight long oral epics from four bards of northern Bosnia, the northern most predominantly Muslim district in Europe. Sung with the accompaniment of the picked tambura rather than the bowed gusle that is familiar elsewhere in the Yugoslav tradition, the epos in northern Bosnia was often strophic or stanzaic rather than stichic. This volume is the first publication in the more than century-old scholarship on South Slavic oral traditions to take note of that fact, and to document it with specific texts. The editor's Prolegomena include detailed discussions of the principles of rhythm in this epos, the sources of the tales in it, and extensive comparative commentaries linking the eight narratives with those found in other Yugoslav towns, especially with the tradition of Avdo Mededovic at Bijelo Polje.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1971, hardback in jacket, 483 pages | sound copy shows moderate general wear, some yellowing due to age; free of name, notes etc | carefully packaged and dispatched from UK within two working days.

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Condition: New. Parry is a major figure in Homeric studies. This volume is a collection of his most important works. Num Pages: 552 pages, halftone as frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 844. . 1988. Reprint. paperback. . . . . …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, Oxford University Press, 1971: Adam Parry's collected edition of his father Milman Parry's papers on oral poetry, including English translations of the two French dissertations and extracts from the Jugoslavian journal. Dark blue cloth, the spine lettered in gilt with the Oxford device at the foot, in the original dust jacket under a cellophane library wrapper. An ex-library copy: call-number label and reinforcing tape at the spine, "Michigan State Library" stamped on the top edge of the text block, a RELEASED stamp and adhesive residue from a removed pocket on the rear endpapers, and light pencil marginal marks in the introduction; the jacket is rubbed and toned with the tape showing at the spine ends. The boards are clean and square, the binding tight, and the text block clean and bright throughout the Greek, a very good copy in a good jacket, unclipped at 6.00 pounds net. Ex-Library.…

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Condition: New. Parry is a major figure in Homeric studies. This volume is a collection of his most important works. Num Pages: 552 pages, halftone as frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 844. . 1988. Reprint. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavo. lxii 483pp. Navy blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. There are some scattered pencil notations from a scholar. Some mustiness. Binding is firm.

Paperback. Condition: As New. 483p. A softcover book in fine condition, as new.