{"title":"Series: Publications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePublications of the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e delve into the rich traditions and structures of oral narratives, offering readers profound insights into the power of spoken word across cultures. This series invites exploration of how oral storytelling shapes history, memory, and identity, bridging disciplines from philosophy and psychology to history and anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect rigorous scholarship paired with accessible analysis, illuminating the artistry behind oral traditions and their enduring influence. Whether interested in cultural heritage or the mechanisms of narrative itself, these works deepen appreciation for the living voices and stories that form the foundation of human expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"singers-and-tales-in-the-twenty-first-century-9780674278547","title":"Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrounded in the intellectual legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry (1902–1935) and Albert Lord (1912–1991), \u003cem\u003eSingers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e gathers reflections on what the study of oral poetry might mean today across diverse poetic traditions, especially in light of ongoing global transformations that have dramatically reshaped and destabilised the very notion of tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays spans disciplinary perspectives from Classics and comparative literature to musicology and anthropology. Oral traditions from ancient Greece and modern southeastern Europe, on which Parry and Lord focused, remain central in the present volume, but the book also offers important perspectives from regions beyond Europe, especially across Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title's \"singers and tales\"—both in the plural, as opposed to an individual \"singer of tales\"—signals interest both in the polyphony of oral traditions and in the proliferation of methodologies and objects of study inspired by the work of Parry and Lord. Their notion of what has become known as the Oral-Formulaic Theory remains a necessary starting point—but only a starting point—for research on a whole range of verbal and musical arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432568373484,"sku":"9780674278547","price":80.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674278547.jpg?v=1774555289"},{"product_id":"weathered-words-9780674278394","title":"Weathered Words","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered words are but a part of OFT, and OFT is only a part of scholarship on weathered words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the eighteen essays gathered here brings particular aspects of formulaic language into focus. No volume on such a diverse topic can be all-encompassing, but the essays highlight aspects of the phenomenon that may be eclipsed elsewhere: they diverge not only in style but sometimes even in how they choose to define \u003cem\u003eformula\u003c\/em\u003e. As such, they offer overlapping frames that complement one another both in their convergences and their contrasts. While they view formulaicity from multifarious angles, they unite in a Picasso of perspectives on which the reader can reflect and draw insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461775671532,"sku":"9780674278394","price":61.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674278394-weathered-words.jpg?v=1774976989"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-publications-of-the-milman-parry-collection-of-oral-literature.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}