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Disce!: An Introductory Latin Course (English and Latin Edition)

Sienkewicz, Thomas J.

Kitchell, Kenneth F., Jr.

Pearson College Div

Rap and Homer? It may seem incongruous to link the verbal gymnastics of black America and the epic poetry of ancient Greece. yet there is nothing frivolous in pairing the two, for both represent skilled exponents of richly developed oral cultures. The techniques of their craft, their relations with their audience and their place within the community are common bonds of more significance than the distances which separate them. This book, the collaboration of a classicist and a sociolinguist, ranges across six continents and 3000 years, taking in the oral world of Homer, the orators of Madagascar and Samoa, the story-tellers of Africa and the Caribbean and the rappers of America and Britain today. In their panoramic account, the authors explore particularly the characteristics and techniques of the oral performer and the active role of the audience in the performance. The interchanges of performer and audience include praise and blame, boasts and self-blame, abuse and counter-abuse. The authors look too at the structure and connections of oral performances, marked by repetition and elaborations, proverbs, lists and riddles. The work is aimed at undergraduates and specialists in sociolinguistics, English folklore, black studies and classics.

Oral Cultures Past and Present: Rappin' and Homer (Language Library)

Reference

Edwards, VIV

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Blackwell Pub.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Vergil's Aeneid not only make up the core of ancient Greek and Roman literature but also serve as the centerpiece of the classical tradition upon which Westen culture is based. This bibliography is directed toward the first-time reader of the classical epics in English translation. The annotations are designed to help the high school and college student find a path through the material written about Homer and Virgil.

The Classic Epic

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Scarecrow Press

A compact reference source that offers general readers bibliographic access to significant English-language translations, retellings, and summaries of myths from cultures around the world. While Greek, Roman, Norse, and Arthurian myths are the best known, this bibliography also takes special care to survey the less familiar materials containing African, Asian, Oceanian, and American myths while it offers a sampling of the best and most accessible European myth collections. The annotated entries are arranged geographically with an additional chapter containing comparative studies and collections of myths from more than one part of the world. This easy-to-use reference source also includes author, illustrator/photographer, and subject indexes.

World Mythology

Genre Fiction

Theories of Myth, a companion to the author's World Mythology: An Annotated Guide to Collections and Anthologies (Scarecrow Press and Salem Press, 1996), has been written to serve the needs of college undergraduates, high school students, and general readers approaching the study of myth for the first time. Whereas the earlier volume describes the plethora of anthologies, collections, and general introductions to myth from around the world, Theories of Myth lists the most important English-language studies of myth theory, which attempt to answer the questions: What is "myth?" How does it function in human society, and how is it to be interpreted? Here the reader will find the most significant theoretical studies of traditional stories, legends, tales and sagas from around the world, which attempt to address such questions from a variety of perspectives. Includes an author/editor index and a subject index.

Theories of Myth: An Annotated Bibliography

Ancient Greece Volume 1: The Achaean League to the Dorian Invasion of Greece

Ancient Greece Vol 1

INGRAM INTERNATIONAL INC

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