| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages). |
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text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homer -- Technique.
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Homer. |
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Technique. |
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Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, English (Old) |
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Comparative literature -- English and Greek.
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Comparative literature -- English and Greek. |
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Comparative literature -- Greek and English.
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Comparative literature -- Greek and English. |
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Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Epic poetry, Greek. |
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature. |
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Dueling in literature.
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Dueling in literature. |
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Heroes in literature.
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Heroes in literature. |
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Speech in literature.
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Speech in literature. |
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Rhetoric, Medieval.
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Rhetoric, Medieval. |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Dialogue.
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Dialogue. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Parks, Wards. Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative : The Homeric and Old English Traditions. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400860883 (electronic book) |
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1400860881 (electronic book) |
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