Lyric, meaning, and audience in the oral tradition of Northern Europe /

Thomas A. DuBois.
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: DuBois, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Multiple
Published / Created: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2006.
Series:Poetics of orality and literacy
Subjects:
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index.

Physical description: viii, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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ISBN:9780268025892
0268025894
Table of Contents:
Introduction : lyrics and the issue of meaning
Pausing in a narrative's march : the interpretation of lyrics within epics
In ritual and wit : the hermeneutics of the invocational lyric
Conversing with God : medieval religious lyric and its interpretation
Confronting convention : reading reception in Shakespeare's use of lyric song
Attribution and the imagined performer
Personal meanings in the performance of one man's repertoire.