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  title info:
    title: New light on formulas in oral poetry and prose
  name:
    name part: Sävborg, Daniel
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
  name:
    name part: Thorvaldsen, Bernt Øyvind
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: be
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 368 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "During the 20th century scholars discovered that oral poetry in entirely unrelated cultures in the world share a basic characteristic: the use of verbal formulas, more or less fixed word strings which were inherited from tradition. The discovery of formulas revolutionized the understanding of oral tradition, and how oral poetry was transmitted. Homer, Eddic poems, Karelian laments, Serbian heroic poetry etc. were suddenly seen in a new light. But the original Oral-Formulaic Theory has also been questioned and revised. New approaches in the study of formulas have been developed among linguists and folklorists. The present volume discusses new approaches, models and interpretations of formulas in traditional poetry and prose. The 20 authors in the volume analyze formulas in a broad context by letting oral traditions from all over the world shed light on each other. The volume aims to deepen our understanding of the function and meaning of the formulas. A unique feature is that the volume focuses equally much on formulas in oral prose as in poetry - usually formula studies have focused entirely or mainly on poetry."--
  table of contents: Formulas and formula research : an introduction / Daniel Säveborg and Bernt Ø. Thorvaldsen -- Fee, fi, fo, formula : getting to grips with the concept and deciding on a definition / Frog -- Formulas, collocations, and cultural memory / Stephen A. Mitchell -- A formula is a habit of colliding with life / Slavica Ranković and Miloś Rancović -- Chunks, collocations and constructions : the Homeric formula in cognitive and linguistic perspective / Chiara Bozzone -- A further history of orality and Eddic poetry / Paul Acker -- Formulas in Scottish traditional narrative : finding poetry in the prosaic / William Lamb -- Towards a typology of runic formulas, with a focus on the one-word forumula in the Older Runic Inscriptions / Michael Schulte -- Revisiting formula and mythic patterns and the interplay between the Poetic Edda and Vo̜lsunga Saga / Scott A. Mellor -- Same meanings, different words : retelling as a mode of transmission in Old Norse-Icelandic Konungasögur tradition / Daria Glebova -- Depicting violence in Íslendingasögar : a formula on the verge of legal tradition / Eugenia Kristina Vorobeva -- Formulaic word-play in the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Inna Matyushina -- Freeman's formulas : openings, transitions and closes / Jonathan Roper -- The aesthetics of Russian folktale formulas : a view from translation studies / Tatiana Bogradanova.
  note: edited by Daniel Sävborg and Bernt Ø. Thorvaldsen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Oral tradition in literature
  subject:
    topic: Philology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
  subject:
    topic: Tradition orale dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Philologie
  subject:
    topic: Analyse linguistique (Linguistique)
  subject:
    topic: philology
  classification: P126 .N49 2023
  classification: P121-143.3
  classification: 410
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 57
  identifier: 9782503604282
  identifier: 2503604285
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 230127
    record change date: 20250318223106.2
    record identifier: in00005465690
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng