Parry in Paris: Structuralism, Historical Linguistics, and the Oral Theory

Classical Antiquity 24 (2):257-284 (2005)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This paper investigates the origins of the Oral Theory as formulated by Milman Parry in Paris during the late 1920s by reexamining the scholarship on which it rests. Parry's Oral Theory compared the texts of oral performances in Yugoslavia with the Homeric texts in order to shed light on the presumed oral origins of the latter. His work integrated the work of the linguist and Indo-Europeanist Antoine Meillet, the linguist and scholar of oral poetics Matthias Murko, and the anthropologists Lucien Lévy-Bruhl and Marcel Jousse

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,401

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-12-09

Downloads
92 (#235,632)

6 months
7 (#469,699)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

References found in this work

Preface to Plato.Eric Alfred Havelock - 1963 - Cambridge,: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press.
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word.Walter J. Ong - 1983 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 16 (4):270-271.
Tristes Tropiques.Claude Lévi-Strauss - 1958 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 13 (4):554-554.
Preface to Plato.Friedrich Solmsen & Eric A. Havelock - 1966 - American Journal of Philology 87 (1):99.

View all 11 references / Add more references