Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Volume 14, Biha´c Krajina” Epics from Biha´c, Cazin, and Kulen
Milman Parry, Collector
Compiled by Albert B. Lord
David E. Bynum, Ed. and Trans.
Hardcover 1980
Serbocroatian Heroic Songs, Volume 6, Bijelo Polje, Three Texts from Avdo Mededovi´c “The Wedding of Vlahinji´c Alija Osambeg Delibegovi´c Pavicevi´c Luka
Milman Parry, Collector
David E. Bynum, Ed. and Trans.
Hardcover 1980
The Singer of Tales
Albert B. Lord
Stephen Mitchell, Editor
Gregory Nagy, Editor
This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a unique enhancement: a CD containing the original audio recordings of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live tradition of oral narrative poetry in order to find an answer to the age-old Homeric Question: How had the author of the Iliad and Odyssey composed these two monumental epic poems at the very start of Europe's literary tradition? Parry's, and with him Lord's, enduring contribution--set forth in Lord's The Singer of Tales--was to demonstrate the process by which oral poets compose.
Mixed 2000
Tears of Longing
Christine R. Yano
Informed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes "Japan."
Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003