In 1953, Milman Parry and Albert Lord published “Serbo-Croatian heroic songs”, to prove that the Homeric tradition of epic poetry was still alive in Balkans time. The writer Ismail Kadare, seduced by this hypothesis, created novel “The H File”, content which includes two fictional Irish-American researchers, Max Rothi Vili Nortoni, who set out for deep mountains pre-war Northern Albania. Referr...

Turkish instrumental poetry is a deep-rooted tradition that has survived to the present day by gaining unique style and shape being fed from minstrel-art environments in Anatolia, rooted pre-Muslim poet-baksı tradition, developed over centuries feeding different cultural artistic circles of Turkestan geography, followed systematically since 16th century after first examples were identified Anat...

This article aims to clarify the characteristics of ballad genre among other works in Northeast Siberia (in Yakutia and a separate settlement Magadan region). It examines local features song variants recorded from long-time residents Yakutia. The source materials used are texts published collections “Folklore Russian Ustye” (1986) “Russian Epic Poetry Far East” (1991). presents songs settlers l...

Virgil’s Aeneid has left an infinitely quotable legacy. Considered by many generations the pinnacle of Latin literature, it was all-but-required reading for the Roman elite from Augustus onward. The influence of the Aeneid on the extant works of the Silver Age of Latin literature is clear, though it takes various forms. Lucan’s Bellum Civile explicitly draws from the epic tradition Romanized by...

the writer and professor abdulaziz almaqaleh is considered one of the most contemporary writers of and outside yemen and especially in the field of poetry and literary criticism and teaching university but he also has other literary works and intellectual and political writings and has columns in newspapers and magazines in yemen and other arab countries. he also sang a verse of poetry in vario...

Abstract This paper comments on a recent article “Revolutionary poetry and liquid crystal chemistry: Herman Gorter, Ada Prins the interface between literature science” by Hub Zwart (Foundations of Chemistry, published online: 10 July 2020), in which author explores influence research epic poem Pan written her long-time lover Gorter. The present reviews basic science crystals explains connection...

The "Mour" is an elegiac dirge in Laki – an ancient language still spoken in regions as diverse as Lorestan, Hamadan, Ilam, and Kermanshah. Sung in an elegiac non-rhythmic tune and just in one distich in memory of a dead person, these wistful melodies have a rather long history. The purpose of this article, which is descriptive-analytical and library-based, is to explore the relationship betwee...

This article explores uncertainty in Claudian's late Antique Latin epic, the De Raptu Proserpinae. It first focuses upon areas of artistic provisionality, rhetorical inconsistency, and indeterminacy, then compares contrasts political poetry. suggests that mythological can be read as an acknowledgment of, detached reflection upon, uncertainties Claudian would have been familiar with one involved...