Explorations in Semantic Parallelism

by James J. Fox

This collection of eighteen papers explores issues in the study of semantic parallelism - a world-wide tradition in the composition of oral poetry. It is concerned with both comparative issues and the intensive study of a single living poetic tradition of composition in strict canonical parallelism. The papers in the volume were written at intervals from 1971 to 2014 - a period of over forty years. They are a summation of a career-long research effort...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 192214469X
• ISBN13: 9781922144690
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.8"