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Singing the Past

Name: Singing the Past
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 04706185
Price: 93.59 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Karl Reichl
ISBN: 9780801437366

Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry

Karl Reichl

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04706185

Publishers Cornell University Press, June 2000

Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl... Full description

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Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar to heroic poetry in Old English, Old High German, and Old French and that they can offer scholars new insights into the oral background of these medieval texts.Reichl draws on his research in Central Asia to discuss questions regarding performance as well as the singers' training, role in society, and repertoire. He asserts that heroic poetry and epic are primarily concerned with the interpretation of the past in song: the courageous deeds of ancestors, the search for tribal and societal roots, and the definition and transmission of cultural values. Reichl finds that in these traditions the heroic epic is part of a generic system that includes historical and eulogistic poetry as well as heroic lays, a view that has diachronic implications for medieval poetry.Singing the Past reminds readers that because much medieval poetry was composed for oral recitation, both the Turkic and the medieval heroic poems must always be appreciated as poetry in performance, as sound listened to, as words spoken or sung.