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dc.contributor.authorDukat, Zdeslaveng
dc.date.issued1991-05eng
dc.description.abstractOne 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 verses is to be expected. As in other aspects of the true nature of oral style, Milman Parry here too was a pioneer, comparing the frequency of various kinds of enjambement in Homer, Virgil, and Apollonius of Rhodes (1929).eng
dc.format.extent13 pageseng
dc.identifier.citationOral Tradition, 6/2-3 (1991): 303-315.eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/64621
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.titleEnjambement as a Criterion for Orality in Homeric and South Slavic Epic Poetryeng
dc.typeArticleeng


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