Performance and gender in ancient Greece : nondramatic poetry in its setting / by Stehle, Eva, 1944-

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Singing the Past : Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry / by Reichl, Karl

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Singing the Past : Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry / by Reichl, Karl

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The past before us : historical traditions of early north India / by Thapar, Romila

Table of Contents: “…14 Inscriptions as Official Histories--and the Voice of the Bard --…”
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Visions and ruins : Cultural memory and the untimely Middle Ages / by Davies, Joshua (Lecturer in Medieval Literature)

Table of Contents: “…Ruins and wonders: the poetics of cultural memory in and of early medieval England -- Queen Eleanor and her crosses: trauma and memory, medieval and modern -- Medievalist double consciousness and the production of difference: Medieval bards, cultural memory and nationalist fantasy -- The language of gesture: untimely bodies and contemporary performance.…”
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The poet's voice : essays on poetics and Greek literature / by Goldhill, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Part I: The poet hero: language and representation in the Odyssey -- Recognition -- Naming and disguise -- Telling a tale -- The voice of the bard -- Part II: Intimations of immortality: fame and tradition from Homer to Pindar -- Critical exchanges -- The revisionary gleam -- Poetics and politics -- The limits of praise and the praise of limits -- Part III: Comic inversion and inverted commas: Aristophanes and parady -- The contest of public voices -- Carnival and licence -- Speaking out -- Purloining the poet's voice -- Part IV: Framing, polyphony and desire: Theocritus and Hellenistic poetics -- The programmatic voice -- The pastoral frame -- The lovers voice: the subject of desire -- Courting fame -- Part V: The paradigms of epic: Apollonius Rhodius and the example of the past -- Back to the future -- Opening and closing the text: singing and signing -- Exemplarity (in brackets) -- The explanation of the past: aetiology and the human sciences.…”
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Performing medieval narrative /

Table of Contents: “…Tudor -- Reading, reciting, and performing the Renart / Kenneth Varty -- Turkic bard and medieval entertainer: what a living epic tradition can tell us about oral performance of narrative in the Middle Ages / Karl Reichl -- Beowulf, the Edda, and the performance of medieval epic: notes from the workshop of a reconstructed "singer of tales" / Benjamin Bagby -- The weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell: performance and intertextuality in middle English popular romance / Linda Marie Zaerr -- "Une aventure vous dirai": performing medieval narrative / Anne Azéma.…”
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