Oral Epics of Central AsiaCambridge University Press, 03 հնս, 2010 թ. - 366 էջ Originally published in 1969, this book consists of a revised version of Dr Chadwick's section on the oral literature of the Turkic peoples in The Growth of Literature with supplementary material on the results of research in the Soviet Union by Professor Victor Zhirmunsky. This literature is of the greatest interest and variety, and not excessively 'strange' to readers of European oral literature. It was produced by nomadic peoples with well-developed traditions of narrative heroic poetry. Dr Chadwick paraphrases and analyses the more important epics; and Professor Zhirmunsky adds a study on epic songs and their singers on the processes of oral transmission. This is a fascinating study that will be of particular interest to scholars of comparative literature and of the origins of literature generally; but it should also be read by anthropologists and scholars of folklore. |
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Heroic poetry and saga | 26 |
individualism in the heroic poems | 79 |
Nonheroic poetry and saga | 96 |
Historical and unhistorical elements in heroic | 142 |
Poetry and saga relating to gods and spirits and | 160 |
Antiquarian poetry and saga Gnomic and | 171 |
The texts | 196 |
Recitation and composition | 213 |
The shaman | 234 |
Epic songs and singers in Central Asia | 269 |
Bibliographical references | 340 |
349 | |
Common terms and phrases
Abakan Abakan poems Abakan Turks Alaman Alpamysh Altai Altyn ancient bakshy Bolot Buriat byliny Central Asia century character Chinese Chodzko contest Czaplicka earth edited enemy epic epic poetry epos Erlik extempore father feast folk-lore Heaven hero hero's heroic folk-tale heroic narrative heroic poetry historical horse Ibid improvisation interesting jajan Joloi journey Kalmuck Kanykäi Karakalpak Kazakh Khan Kirghiz Kogutei Kökchö Korkut Köroglu Kudai literary literature maiden Manas Manas cycle Märgän minstrel Mohammedan Mökö Mongol Moscow motifs narrative poems narrative poetry native Nogai nomads non-heroic Oghuz Oirat oral origin poet poetical poetry and saga popular prince Proben prose Radlov Radlov's collection recitation recorded referred relates represented riddles Russian translation Sagai shaman Siberia Sibirien singer singing songs spirits steppe story supernatural Tatars Teleut texts tion Töshtük tradition tribes Tungus Turkic Turkmens Uigur Ülgen Underworld Uzbek Valikhanov Vambéry variant verse wife Yakut yurt рр