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Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry - Myth and Poetics
Karl Reichl
Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry - Myth and Poetics
Karl Reichl
Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that...
272 pages, 4 maps, 1 b&w photograph
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 27, 2000 |
ISBN13 | 9780801437366 |
Publishers | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Dimensions | 239 × 163 × 24 mm · 538 g |