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Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. 'Medieval Oral Literature', a volume in the 'De Gruyter Lexikon' series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama. Mittelalterliche Dichtung ist weitgehend der Mündlichkeit verpflichtet, nicht nur was den Vortrag und die Aufführung betrifft, sondern auch im Bezug auf die Überlieferung und das Dichten selbst. Obwohl in der mediävistischen Forschung Fragen der Mündlichkeit mittelalterlicher Dichtung viel diskutiert werden, fehlt es an einer übergreifenden, handbuchartigen Darstellung. Das De Gruyter-Lexikon ,Medieval Oral Literature' wurde von einem internationalen Team von 25 Wissenschaftlern geschrieben und bietet eine fundierte Diskussion theoretischer Ansätze sowie ausführliche Erörterungen einzelner literarischer Traditionen und Gattungen. Neben Kapiteln zur ,oral-formulaic theory', zur Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im frühen Mittelalter, zur performance und den Sängern/ Spielleuten, zur mündlichen Poetik und zu rituellen Aspekten der Mündlichkeit finden sich Kapitel zu altgermanischen, romanischen, mittelhochdeutschen, mittelenglischen, keltischen, griechisch-byzantinischen, russischen, hebräischen, arabischen, persischen und türkischen Traditionen mündlicher Dichtung. An Gattungen werden insbesondere Epik und Lyrik berücksichtigt, zum Teil in separaten Kapiteln, mit zusätzlichen Kapiteln zur Ballade und zum Drama.

Literature, Medieval --- Oral tradition in literature. --- Folk literature --- Epic literature --- Littérature médiévale --- Tradition orale dans la littérature --- Littérature populaire --- Littérature épique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Folklore --- History and criticism --- Littérature médiévale --- Tradition orale dans la littérature --- Littérature populaire --- Littérature épique --- --Littérature --- --Littérature orale --- Fiction --- anno 500-1499 --- Oral tradition in literature --- --Moyen âge, --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism. --- Folk literature - History and criticism. --- Epic literature - History and criticism. --- Littérature --- Littérature orale --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Medieval Literature, Oral epic, Orality, Performance.

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This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry.The leading question of the book is how the socio-cultural context of performance and the various performance elements contribute to the meaning of oral epics. This is a question which not only concerns epics collected from living oral tradition, but which is also of importance for the understanding of the epics of antiquity and the Middle Ages which originated and flourished in an oral milieu.The book is based on fieldwork in the still vibrant oral traditions of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia and Siberia. The discussion combines fieldwork with theory; it is not limited to Turkic epics but branches out into other oral traditions.

Poetry --- History of civilization --- Central Asia --- E-books

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Epic poetry, Turkic --- Epic poetry. --- Poetics --- Poetry, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism.

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