03186nam 2200841uu 450 991096490960332120251116215217.0978019770471401977047199781280527159128052715397801980247120198024711978142940648214294064882027/heb31903(CKB)1000000000465827(EBL)271621(OCoLC)476007794(SSID)ssj0000174121(PQKBManifestationID)11156016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000174121(PQKBWorkID)10174467(PQKB)11112632(Au-PeEL)EBL271621(CaPaEBR)ebr10278549(CaONFJC)MIL52715(OCoLC)466425441(dli)HEB31903(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000707(MiAaPQ)EBC271621(OCoLC)1406782730(StDuBDS)9780197704714(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000707(EXLCZ)99100000000046582719960612e20231995 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow to kill a dragon aspects of Indo-European poetics /Calvert Watkins1st ed.New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (630 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 1995.9780195144130 0195144139 9780195085952 0195085957 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 passagesIndex of wordsA 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.Oxford scholarship online.Indo-European philologyPoeticsComparative linguisticsIndo-European philology.Poetics.Comparative linguistics.809809.1Watkins Calvert218666UkUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910964909603321How to kill a dragon722715UNINA