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Oral Epics in India
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Stuart H. Blackburn
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-01-01 - Publisher:

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Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics
Language: en
Pages: 575
Authors: Alf Hiltebeitel
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking
Textualising the Siri Epic
Language: en
Pages: 700
Authors: Lauri Honko
Categories: Epic poetry, Indic
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher:

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How does an illiterate singer produce a long oral epic? What is the origin of his "text", available only for a fleeting moment at its performance? How can a mul
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Margaret Beissinger
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-31 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Oral Traditions in South India
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Heidrun Brückner
Categories: Epic poetry, Tulu
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Harrassowitz

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The present volume studies three oral epic traditions in the Tulu language (a Dravidian language). They have been living performance traditions in the Tulu spea