Lyric, meaning, and audience in the oral tradition of Northern Europe
By: Thomas A. DuBois
Series: Poetics of orality and literacy
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780268025892
Subjects: Folk songs -- Europe, Northern -- History and criticism; Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction : lyrics and the issue of meaning; title: Pausing in a narrative's march : the interpretation of lyrics within epics; title: In ritual and wit : the hermeneutics of the invocational lyric; title: Conversing with God : medieval religious lyric and its interpretation; title: Confronting convention : reading reception in Shakespeare's use of lyric song; title: Attribution and the imagined performer; title: Personal meanings in the performance of one man's repertoire