The varieties of formulaic diction in Turkic oral epics
This article tries to show that the formulaic diction on the level of verse line and formulaic patterning in the composition of scenes are closely related and must be studied together. The analysis is done on the example of Turkic epics. Of the formulaic patterns the most prominent one is t...
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| description | This article tries to show that the formulaic diction on the level of verse
line and formulaic patterning in the composition of scenes are closely
related and must be studied together. The analysis is done on the example of
Turkic epics. Of the formulaic patterns the most prominent one is the variety
of use of the attribute ak (white), which appears to be one of the most
common epithets in Turkic epic poetry. It is usually connected with cloth
(e.g. caftan, yurt), different parts of body (face, bosom), antelope, the
lumps of gold given as bride-price and various kinds of arms (sword, spear)
etc. It is usually denoted evaluatively as purity and beauty. In this matter
Turkic epics share its position with many national epics of the middle ages
including Serbian, Old English, Old German etc. The same role is analyzed for
the opposite pattern “dust of earth”, and for the two themes: preparation of
the hero for his journey and council scenes which are also mutual to many
medieval epic traditions such as aforementioned Serbian and others. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-15d2a83510174b2d96ab1c4ad4e2508d2022-12-21T20:05:53ZengInstitute for Balkan Studies SASABalcanica0350-76532013-01-01201344799110.2298/BALC1344079R0350-76531344079RThe varieties of formulaic diction in Turkic oral epicsReichl Karl0University of Bonn, Bonn, GermanyThis article tries to show that the formulaic diction on the level of verse line and formulaic patterning in the composition of scenes are closely related and must be studied together. The analysis is done on the example of Turkic epics. Of the formulaic patterns the most prominent one is the variety of use of the attribute ak (white), which appears to be one of the most common epithets in Turkic epic poetry. It is usually connected with cloth (e.g. caftan, yurt), different parts of body (face, bosom), antelope, the lumps of gold given as bride-price and various kinds of arms (sword, spear) etc. It is usually denoted evaluatively as purity and beauty. In this matter Turkic epics share its position with many national epics of the middle ages including Serbian, Old English, Old German etc. The same role is analyzed for the opposite pattern “dust of earth”, and for the two themes: preparation of the hero for his journey and council scenes which are also mutual to many medieval epic traditions such as aforementioned Serbian and others.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2013/0350-76531344079R.pdfTurkic epicsformulaformulaic dictionpatterncomposition formulameterparallelism |
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| title | The varieties of formulaic diction in Turkic oral epics |
| title_full | The varieties of formulaic diction in Turkic oral epics |
| title_fullStr | The varieties of formulaic diction in Turkic oral epics |
| title_full_unstemmed | The varieties of formulaic diction in Turkic oral epics |
| title_short | The varieties of formulaic diction in Turkic oral epics |
| title_sort | varieties of formulaic diction in turkic oral epics |
| topic | Turkic epics formula formulaic diction pattern composition formula meter parallelism |
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