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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964909603321

Autore

Watkins Calvert

Titolo

How to kill a dragon : aspects of Indo-European poetics / / Calvert Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

9780197704714

0197704719

9781280527159

1280527153

9780198024712

0198024711

9781429406482

1429406488

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (630 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

809

809.1

Soggetti

Indo-European philology

Poetics

Comparative linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; ASPECTS OF INDO-EUROPEAN POETICS; I. The Field of Comparative Poetics: Introduction and Background; II. Case Studies; III. The Strophic Style: An Indo-European Poetic Form; HOW TO KILL A DRAGON IN INDO-EUROPEAN: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF THE FORMULA; IV. The Basic Formula and Its Variants in the Narration of the Myth; V. Some Indo-European Dragons and Dragon-Slayers; VI. From Myth to Epic; VII. From Myth to Charm; Abbreviations; References; Indexes of names and subjects; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Index of passages

Index of words

Sommario/riassunto

A demonstration of the continuity of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. Using the comparative



method, the traditional poetic formulae can be reconstructed back to the original common languages, thus revealing the tenacity of the poetic tradition.