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Title: Epic content Epic performance


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Issues to consider
  • What are these poems about?
  • What is the tone?
  • What sorts of things strike you?
  • Ending
  • Gender relations
  • What makes a hero heroic
  • Position of the ruler

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Narrative style
  • To what extent are various things described
  • To what extent are various people described
  • How is dialogue rendered

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Are these stories of loss?
  • What is lost? Old relationship between the
    sexes?
  • What about issue of hubris? Do Russian heroes
    get themselves into trouble this way?
  • Esp. evident in Slovo o Polku Igoreve
  • Is hubris artful behavior?

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Relationship of epic to reality
  • Do byliny reflect real people, events, battles?
  • Epic used to reconstruct lit. where ms. presumed
    lost
  • Epic used to reconstruct history where ms.
    presumed lost
  • Caveat of imperfect folk memory

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Relationship to history cont.
  • Which events are selected for representation in
    byliny?
  • Which historical figures heroes?
  • What about frankly fantastic elements
  • Dragons
  • Resurrection from the dead
  • Fantastic travel, shape-shifters

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The bandura and the kobzari
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