Memory in oral traditions : the cognitive psychology of epic, ballads, and counting-out rhymes / David C. Rubin.
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TextSeries: OUP E-BooksPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 385 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 142375851X
- 9781423758518
- 1601299206
- 9781601299208
- 1280443367
- 9781280443367
- 9786610443369
- 661044336X
- Oral tradition
- Memory
- Counting-out rhymes -- History and criticism
- Ballads, English -- North Carolina -- History and criticism
- Epic literature -- History and criticism
- Tradition orale
- Comptines -- Histoire et critique
- Ballades anglaises -- Caroline du Nord -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature épique -- Histoire et critique
- SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology
- Ballads, English
- Counting-out rhymes
- Epic literature
- Memory
- Oral tradition
- North Carolina
- Humans Memory (Mental processes)
- 153.1/33 20
- GR67 .R83 1995eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-365) and indexes.
The representation of themes in memory -- Imagery -- Sound -- Combining constraints -- The transmission of oral traditions, -- Basic observations on remembering -- A theory of remembering for oral traditions -- Epic and formulaic theory -- Counting-out rhymes -- North Carolina Ballads -- Discussion.
This text applies the methods and theories of cognitive psychology to the study of oral traditions. The author elaborates on three structural devices that appear in oral traditions: those consisting of meaning; those using imagery; and those in which sound pattern is predominant.
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