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  1. Traditional Oral Epic
    The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
    Published: [1990]; ©1990
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come... more

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    John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histories, genres, and documents, as well as both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of their poetics.Until now, the emphasis in studies of oral traditional works has been placed on addressing the correspondences among traditions-shared structures of "formula," "theme," and "story-pattern." Traditional Oral Epic explores the incongruencies among traditions and focuses on the qualities specific to certain oral and oral-derived works. It is certain to inspire further research in this field

     

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  2. A Contrastive Analysis of Textual Metafunction
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783659716584; 3659716588
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    9783659716584
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; textual metafunction; thematic structure; marked structure; Contrastive analysis; (VLB-WN)1564: Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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