How Long to Read Epic Singers and Oral Tradition

How Long Does it Take to Read Epic Singers and Oral Tradition?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Albert Bates Lord here offers an unparalleled overview of the nature of oral-traditional epic songs and the practices of the singers who composed them. Shaped by the conviction that theory should be based on what singers actually do, and have done in times past, the essays collected here span half a century of Lord's research on the oral tradition from Homer to the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in living oral traditions and on the theoretical writings of Milman Parry, Lord concentrates on the singers and their art as manifested in texts of performance. In thirteen essays, some previously unpublished and all of them revised for book publication, he explores questions of composition, transmittal, and interpretation and raises important comparative issues. Individual chapters discuss aspects of the Homeric poems, South Slavic oral-traditional epics, the songs of Avdo Metedovic, Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon poetry, the medieval Greek Digenis Akritas and other medieval epics, central Asiatic and Balkan epics, the Finnish Kalevala, and the Bulgarian oral epic. The work of one of the most respected scholars of his generation, Epic Singers and Oral Tradition will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of myth and folklore, classicists, medievalists, Slavists, comparatists, literary theorists, and anthropologists.

How long is Epic Singers and Oral Tradition?

Epic Singers and Oral Tradition by Albert Bates Lord is 280 pages long, and a total of 70,000 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Epic Singers and Oral Tradition Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 22 minutes to read Epic Singers and Oral Tradition aloud.

What Reading Level is Epic Singers and Oral Tradition?

Epic Singers and Oral Tradition is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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