Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative : the Homeric and Old English Traditions.

By:

Parks, Wards

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (251 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400860883
1400860881

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative : The Homeric and Old English Traditions.DDC classification:

829.1 21

LOC classification:

PR205

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Conclusion Contest and Culture.

Summary: This work is a rare cross-cultural study of one of the most universal dialogic genres: heroic flyting, or the verbal duel in which the heroes, prior to physical combat, make boastful claims that must be backed up through action in the arena of public contesting. Long recognized as an elemental behavioral paradigm in human consciousness, the contest has only recently emerged as a factor in the formation of Western intellectual traditions and modes of discourse. In presenting the verbal duel as a literary expression of the contest, Ward Parks shows how flyting interfaces words and physical ac.

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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Conclusion Contest and Culture.

This work is a rare cross-cultural study of one of the most universal dialogic genres: heroic flyting, or the verbal duel in which the heroes, prior to physical combat, make boastful claims that must be backed up through action in the arena of public contesting. Long recognized as an elemental behavioral paradigm in human consciousness, the contest has only recently emerged as a factor in the formation of Western intellectual traditions and modes of discourse. In presenting the verbal duel as a literary expression of the contest, Ward Parks shows how flyting interfaces words and physical ac.

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