In 1970, when Ruth Finnegan published her ground-breaking book Oral Literature in Africa, she devoted extensive chapters to prose narratives, proverbs, riddles, and praise poetry. She did not neglect forms in African folklore that at the time were barely studied, such as children\u27s songs and rhymes, But to the epic she allocated in her massive book of over 550 pages only two-and-a-half pages that she set aside at the conclusion of her chapter on Poetry and Patronage under the title A Note on \u27Epic\u27 (Finnegan 1970: 108-10). Probably having in mind the works of the Chadwicks and Bowra, she strikes a negative chord: Epic is often assumed to be the typical poetic form of non-literate peoples, or at least non-literate peoples at a ...
Africa has long been known as the oral continent, at once the home of oral literature, orature and o...
Some time ago I came across a tiny collection of poems called Chungu tamu by Theobald Mvungi. The au...
Some time ago I came across a tiny collection of poems called Chungu tamu by Theobald Mvungi. The au...
In 1970, when Ruth Finnegan published her ground-breaking book Oral Literature in Africa, she devote...
Ruth Finneganâ s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wid...
Abstract: Ruth Finnegan FBA OBE (1933, Derry, Northern Ireland) took a DPhil in Anthropology at Oxfo...
Until recently, it was still possible for Godfrey Lienhardt, one of the general editors of The Oxfor...
Until recently, it was still possible for Godfrey Lienhardt, one of the general editors of The Oxfor...
When Ruth Finnegan published her book Oral Literature in Africa (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1970),...
When Ruth Finnegan published her book Oral Literature in Africa (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1970),...
Ruth Finneganâ s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wid...
This dense and rich book, made up of four parts, twelve chapters, a comprehensive bibliography and i...
This dense and rich book, made up of four parts, twelve chapters, a comprehensive bibliography and i...
I have in my possession a first edition, hard copy of Ruth Finnegan’s quintessential work, Oral Lite...
I have in my possession a first edition, hard copy of Ruth Finnegan’s quintessential work, Oral Lite...
Africa has long been known as the oral continent, at once the home of oral literature, orature and o...
Some time ago I came across a tiny collection of poems called Chungu tamu by Theobald Mvungi. The au...
Some time ago I came across a tiny collection of poems called Chungu tamu by Theobald Mvungi. The au...
In 1970, when Ruth Finnegan published her ground-breaking book Oral Literature in Africa, she devote...
Ruth Finneganâ s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wid...
Abstract: Ruth Finnegan FBA OBE (1933, Derry, Northern Ireland) took a DPhil in Anthropology at Oxfo...
Until recently, it was still possible for Godfrey Lienhardt, one of the general editors of The Oxfor...
Until recently, it was still possible for Godfrey Lienhardt, one of the general editors of The Oxfor...
When Ruth Finnegan published her book Oral Literature in Africa (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1970),...
When Ruth Finnegan published her book Oral Literature in Africa (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1970),...
Ruth Finneganâ s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been wid...
This dense and rich book, made up of four parts, twelve chapters, a comprehensive bibliography and i...
This dense and rich book, made up of four parts, twelve chapters, a comprehensive bibliography and i...
I have in my possession a first edition, hard copy of Ruth Finnegan’s quintessential work, Oral Lite...
I have in my possession a first edition, hard copy of Ruth Finnegan’s quintessential work, Oral Lite...
Africa has long been known as the oral continent, at once the home of oral literature, orature and o...
Some time ago I came across a tiny collection of poems called Chungu tamu by Theobald Mvungi. The au...
Some time ago I came across a tiny collection of poems called Chungu tamu by Theobald Mvungi. The au...