New light on formulas in oral poetry and prose /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sävborg, Daniel (Editor), Thorvaldsen, Bernt Øyvind (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout : Brepols [2023]
Series:Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 57.
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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.