Albert Lord: Odyssey Pattern
Peter d’Agostino © 1986/2022 Video installation Preview: 4 of 30min loop Edition: 5+2 AP
Albert Lord at Harvard University in 1986 reflecting on his work with Milman Parry regarding the oral tradition and Homeric epic poetry. He also describes the apparatus to record oral singers in Yugoslavia, 1934.
Albert Bates Lord (1912-1991) was a professor of Slavic and comparative literature at Harvard and author of the classic work, The Singer of Tales. "With oral poetry we are dealing with a particular and distinctive process in which oral learning, oral composition, and oral transmission almost merge; they seem to be different facets of the same process."
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