Singing the Past

by 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 they are typologically similar to heroic poetry in Old English, Old High German, and Old French and that they can offer scholars new insights into the oral background of these medieval texts.Reichl draws...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801437369
• ISBN13: 9780801437366
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher