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- John Miles Foley, How to read an oral poem, Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2002, 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-07082-8Publication . Zemke, JohnThis title leads the reader directly to the book’s main business: imparting useful strategies for reading records of verbal arts. It contemplates the dimensions of performance endemic to them, why it is important to account for those aspects when reading, and how performance itself enmeshes verbal expressions in social fabric, both past and present. The primary audience for the book is the general reader. It offers a straightforward exposition of fundamental insights into the nature and function of verbal arts, based on the collective achievements of modern scholarship in the field, and, especially, on summaries of the author’s pioneering work in Homeric Greek, Old English, and modern South Slavic traditions.
- Pedro M. Piñero Ramírez (ed.), La eterna agonía del romancero. Homenaje a Paul Bénichou. Actas del Encuentro Internacional sobre el Romancero (Sevilla, 25-27 October, 1999), Sevilla, Fundación Machado, 2001. 510 pags.Publication . Zemke, JohnTribute is paid to the late lamented scholar of French literature (Tlemcen, September 19, 1908 - Paris, May 14, 2001), whose crucial work on oral tradition analyzed creativity in the romance, with this splendid volume of articles, discussions, and status quo reports on the Peninsular and Sephardic romances.