Bihaćka Krajina: Epics from Bihać, Cazin, and Kulen Vakuf (Volume 14) (Milman Parry Collection, Texts and Translations) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674801652 ISBN 13: 9780674801653

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1980

Synopsis

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 Međedović at Bijelo Polje.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book contains eight complete epics from four traditional singers of tales. Four of the epics are transcribed from audio recordings belonging to the Parry Collection.

About the Author:

Parry was an assistant professor at Harvard.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0674801652
• ISBN 13: 9780674801653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 530