How to kill a dragon: aspects of Indo-European poetics
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Beteilige Person: Watkins, Calvert 1933-2013 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 1995
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Abstract:In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition.
Umfang:XIII, 613 S.
ISBN:0195085957