Displaying 1 of 1 2014 Format: Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording Author: Drout, Michael D. C., 1968- Title: Singers and tales [sound recording] : oral traditions and the roots of literature / by Michael D.C. Drout. Publisher, Date: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2014. Description: 4 sound discs (ca. 4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Summary: Professor Drout traces literature back to its ultimate sources in oral tradition, showing us how works as varied as the Odyssey, Beowulf, the Finnish Kalevala, and epic songs from the former Yugoslavia were shaped by their origins as songs sung--and composed--before a live audience. Understanding the oral roots of these great works lets us see them in a hwole new light. From classical texts to contemporary media, Drout demonstrates how the dynamics or oral tradition shape the verbal art that makes us who we are. Series: The modern scholar : great professors teaching you! Modern scholar. Subjects: Oral tradition. Oral tradition in literature. Folk literature -- History and criticism. Epic literature -- History and criticism. Audiobooks. Other Author: Recorded Books, LLC. Crescite Group, LLC. Notes: "8 lectures"--Container. Release date supplied by publisher. Recording originally produced by Crescite Group, LLC, p2014. Compact disc. In container (17 cm.). Lecturer: Michael D.C. Drout, Wheaton College. Contents: Disc 1. Lecture 1. "90% of all poetry ever made" : the scope of oral tradition ; lecture 2. Not quite "just making it up as they go along" : the theory of oral composition -- Disc 2. Lecture 3.How oral traditions create art and beauty : aesthetics and the south Slavic tradition ; lecture 4. Homer's immanent art -- Disc 3. Lecture 5. "Sweetly sang the scop" : Beowulf and tradition dependence ; lecture 6. Oral tradition and national mythologies : the Finnish Kalevala and the Scottish Ossian ballads -- Disc 4. lecture 7. Beyond the West : Zuni narratives, Siri Epic, and Xhosa praise poetry ; lecture 8. Oral tradition in the age of digital reproduction. ISBN: 9781490633985 1490633987 9781490633985 Publisher Number: UC0331 Other Number: 891665186 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 445939 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: CD 398.209 Drout Medium: [sound recording] Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
