[PDF.80qn] How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics

How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics

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 | #510757 in Books |  Calvert Watkins |  2001-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.90 x1.80 x8.90l,1.96 | File type: PDF | 640 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Reading this is like being the hero who overcomes impossible challenges to win the golden prize|By jeffrey p. charest|This book was recommended to me by the professor who sponsored my independent study project at UC Santa Cruz, on on archaic religious and cosmological elements in Albanian and South Slavic epic songs. I was originally going to use West's book on IE poetry and my| ||"The book...is at once an impressive summation of what has gone before and a bold step forward into new waters...In its methodology, in its breadth, Watkins' book can only be termed a tour de force."--Journal of the American Oriental Society

In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition.

Watkins begins this study with an introduction to the field of ...

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