ORAL EPICS OF CENTRAL ASIA - Cambridge University Press

Description: Here is a orange cloth hardcover volume published by Cambridge University Press titled ORAL EPICS OF CENTRAL ASIA, by Nora K. Chadwick and Victor Zhirmunsky. This book consists of a revised version of Dr Chadwick's section on the oral literature of the Turkic peoples in The Growth of Literature with supplementary material on the results of research in the Soviet Union by Professor Victor Zhirmunsky. This literature is of the greatest interest and variety, and not excessively 'strange' to readers of European oral literature. It was produced by nomadic peoples with well-developed traditions of narrative heroic poetry. Dr Chadwick paraphrases and analyses the more important epics; and Professor Zhirmunsky adds a study on epic songs and their singers on the processes of oral transmission. This is a fascinating study that will be of particular interest to scholars of comparative literature and of the origins of literature generally; but it should also be read by anthropologists and scholars of folklore.Please see my other auctions for more books in philosophy, theology, classics, and biblical studies. Thank you

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