Oral tradition, volume 04, number 3 (October 1989)

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Editor's Column
  • About the Authors (Back Matter)
  • Articles
    • Improvisation in Hungarian Ethnic Dancing: An Analog to Oral Verse Composition
      by Wayne Kraft
    • "Beowulf Was Not There": Compositional Aspects of Beowulf, Lines 1299b-1301
      by Michael D. Cherniss
    • Song, Ritual, and Commemoration in Early Greek Poetry and Tragedy
      by Charles Segal
    • Formulaic Diction in Kazakh Epic Poetry
      by Karl Reichl
    • Oral Verse-Making in Homer's Odyssey
      by William C. Scott
    • Review The Wisdom of the Outlaw: The Boyhood Deeds of Finn in Gaelic Narrative Tradition, Joseph Falaky Nagy
      by Vincent A. Dunn

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    (1989-10) Dunn, Vincent A.; Webber, Ruth House; Henrotte, Gayle A.; Neethling, S.J.
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    Formulaic Diction in Kazakh Epic Poetry
    (1989-10) Reichl, Karl
    "This paper is an attempt to extend formulaic analysis to the Turkic epics of Central Asia. Owing to social and cultural conservatism, the traditional art of oral poetry is still cultivated by a number of Turkic peoples in the present time, in particular by those Turkic tribes who have preserved their nomadic or semi-nomadic way of life until now or at least until recently. Turkic oral narrative poetry is as manifold and diverse as the peoples composing the Turkic world, ranging from the Yakuts of Northern Siberia, via the shamanistic Turks of the Altay and the Lamaistic Tuvinians of the Tannu mountain ridge the nomadic or originally nomadic Turks who live in the vast area from the Tianshan and Pamir mountains to the Caspian Sea (Kirghiz, Kazakh, Karakalpak, Turcoman), the sedentary Turks of Transoxania and the Tarim Basin (Uzbeks, Uyghurs), the Turks of the South Russian steppes and the Caucasus (Tatar, Bashkir, Nogay, Karatchay, and Balkar), to the Turks of Transcaucasia, Anatolia, and the Balkans (Azerbaijanians, Turks of Turkey). Despite some basic similarities among these traditions, resulting from their common linguistic background and cultural heritage, each people has developed its own mode of epic poetry. In the present paper the emphasis is on Kazakh narrative poetry, an oral tradition which recommends itself both by its wealth and its vigor. "--Pages 360-361.
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