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Grain storage management: A guide for keeping your grain in top condition
(University of Missouri Extension, 1993)
Grain isn't necessarily "in the bin" after harvest. That is, broken kernels, moisture pockets, insects, storage molds and other problems can set in and take away your hard-earned capital. This publication addresses problems ...
Compound Diction and Traditional Style in Beowulf and Genesis A
(1991-01)
One of the most striking features of Anglo-Saxon alliterative poetry is the extraordinary richness of the vocabulary. Many words appear only in poetry; almost every poem contains words, usually nominal or adjectival ...
The Evolution of an Oral Tradition: Race-Calling in Canterbury, New Zealand
(1991-01)
The roots of the contemporary study of oral tradition lie in the German Romantic movement, for example in the work of great collectors of oral folklore such as the Grimms. But collecting folklore is one thing; understanding ...
Literary Aesthetics in Oral Art
(1991-01)
Macedonian Folk Poetry, Principally Lyric
(1991-05)
Macedonian folk literature, which has its beginnings in the distant past, developed over a long period of time. Information provided by the Byzantine chronicler Nicephorus (Nikephoros) Gregoras in 1326 is one of the most ...
Enjambement as a Criterion for Orality in Homeric and South Slavic Epic Poetry
(1991-05)
One of the most conspicuous consequences of the adding style of oral poetry is a strong tendency for the end of the sentence to coincide with the end of the verse. In other words, a relatively negligible number of overrun ...
Concluding Formulas of Audience Address in Serbo-Croatian Oral Epic
(1991-05)
"As a special feature of Serbo-Croatian oral poems, audience address is formulaic to a great extent, so that one can posit a stock of traditional formulas and formulaic expressions. From the standpoint of theme, this stock ...
The Montenegrin Oral Epic in a New Perspective
(1991-05)
In his study Putilov advances the opinion that the question of the relationship between history and poetry in Montenegrin oral epic poetry can be resolved by the historical-typological method, which reveals that oral heroic ...
Epea pteroenta : "Winged Words"
(1999-10)
The Legend of Kosovo
(1991-05)
The Folk Ballad in Slovenia
(1991-05)
Slovenia is the western most republic of the Yugoslav federation, bordered by Austria to the north, Italy to the west, and Croatia to the south and southeast. Slovenes are South Slavs and the Slovene language, one of the ...