Serbo-Croatian Heroic Poems

Download or read book Serbo-Croatian Heroic Poems written by David E. Bynum and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 1993 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first work in a new Garland series contains translations of, and commentary on, selected epic texts from the district of Bihac in northern Bosnia. Many of the original Serbo-Croatian texts were published in 1979 by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard U. The nine oral epics translated represent in English the traditional narrative singing of Serbo-Croatian of four poets whose songs were recorded between 1935 and 1963 in the region known locally as Bihaika Krajina. The editor has incorporated with the translations additional information from other sources about the oral tradition of the region. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR