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The European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) collects books, journal articles, reviews and dissertations from Eastern Europe (former countries of Eastern Bloc) which were published in Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland from 1991 to 2007. The segment "Literature" and "Culture" of the European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies contains 18.000 bibliographic entries (from the total asset of 85.000). More information can be found here.
| ID | 34763 |
| Title | The uses of tradition : a comparative enquiry into the nature, uses and functions of oral poetry in the Balkans, the Baltic and Africa |
| Editor(s) | Ed. by Branch, Michael; Hawkesworth, Celia |
| Year | 1994 |
| Pages | xiv+299 p. |
| Place | London |
| Publsiher | School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of |
| Language(s) | eng |
| Annotation | Partial contents: Lord, Albert B., "The impact of Vuk Karadžić on the tradition: the importance of Homer", p. 3-22; Koljević, Svetozar, "Vuk Karadžić and the achievement of his singers", p. 23-36; Hawkesworth, Celia, "The study of South Slav oral poetry: a select annotated bibliography of works in English (1800-1980)", p. 37-50; Milošević-Djordjević, Hatidža, "The collections of oral lyrics (women's songs) arranged and published by Vuk Karadžić: the earliest ritualistic layers", p. 69-74; Kleut, Marija, "The classification of Serbo-Croat oral epic songs into cycles: reasons and consequences", p. 75-82; Deretić, Jovan, "Poems and events: historicity in Serbo-Croat oral epics", p. 83-96; Foley, John Miles, "South Slav oral tradition in a comparative context", p. 97-108; Hatto, A.T., "What is an heroic lay? Some reflections on the Germanic, Serbo-Croat and Fula", p. 123-34; Reichl, Karl, "Parallelism in South Slav and Turkic epic poetry: towards a poetics of formulaic diction", p. 151-64; Harvilahti, Lauri, "Epic poetry cultures and the use of formula technique: some problems of definition", p. 165-78; Voigt, Vilmos, "Primus inter pares: why was Vuk Karadžić the most influential folklore scholar in South-Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century?", p. 179-95; Branch, Michael, "The invention of a national epic", p. 195-212; Knuuttila, Seppo, "'The blind Homer of the North': great-tradition metaphor in portrayals of Finnish and Karelian folk singers", p. 213-30; Virtanen, Leea, "Singers on their songs: the act of singing as perceived by singers in the Setu region of Estonia today", p. 231-50 |
| Series | SSEES occasional papers, 26 |
| Subjects | Yugoslavia / Folk Literature [Browse all] Croatia / Folk Literature [Browse all] Estonia / Folk Literature [Browse all] Eastern Europe / History (to 1918) / Finland [Browse all] Karadžić, Vuk St. |
| Review(s) | Review by Carmicheal, Cathie, in Slavonic and East European Review, 74(3), 1996, p. 493-94; by Mihailovich, Vasa D., in South Slav Journal, 18(1-2), 1997, p. 138-39 |
| Medium | book |
| Holdings | Search WorldCat |
| PURL | Citation link |
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