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Milman Parry (1902 - Los Angeles, 1935), American philologist of expression French E.

Biography

Parry makes its higher learning with the the University of California, where it off obtains the diplomas of bachelor Arts (equivalent of the license of letters) and of master off Arts (equivalent of the master). In 1924, at the 23 years age, it leaves to continue its studies with Paris. It devotes its first year in France to the training of French, then is devoted to its work of Doctorat. In 1928, it obtains the title of arts doctor with the Sorbonne for its thesis entitled the traditional epithet at Homère , thus melting what one will call then the theory of “orality”. The object of the thesis of Parry are the Homeric epithet like “Hector with the étincelant helmet” or “Nestor, the old leader of tanks”. They enamel the text so much so that certain scholars regarded them as interpolation S. According to Parry, they have a quite precise role like tools of the work of the Aède, i.e. the bard which sings the poems, enabling him to build the account with its own way and the wishes of the assistance.

Parry goes back then to the United States, where it obtains a post of teacher with Drake University, in Iowa, then with Harvard. In 1933 and 1935, under the patronage of the American Council of the learned societies and on the council of the linguist Antoine Meillet, it then endeavors to prove its theories on the ground. With his colleague Albert Lord, he traverses the area of Novi Pazar, with the Kosovo, initially during the summer 1933, then during the academic year 1934-1935. It is there that place had, in 1389, the battle known as of the Field of the blackbirds, putting at the catches the Turkish armies of the Mourad sultan and the troops Christian, albano-Serb, of prince Lazare. This battle and others gave rise to great epopees, recited by bards, often illiterate, able to build poems of a few thousands of worms thanks to this “style form”. They note that at several years of interval, the modifications made by the guslari (" chanteurs") are fundamental. According to Parry and Lord, the training of the reading deprives them of their poetic talents. According to the example of Matija Murko, Parry records a few hundreds of epopees, currently preserved at the Widener library in Harvard.

The untimely death of Milman Parry in 1935, in an accidental shooting, prevents it from continuing its work, revolutionists as regards studies of the oral epopees, in particular Homeric. Its work was gathered and published in 1971 by his/her Adam son under the title The Making off Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers off Milman Parry .

Work

• Adam Parry (editor), The Making off Homeric Pours: The Collected Papers off Milman Parry . New York & Oxford: Oxford University Near, 1987.

Bibliography on Milman Parry

• Homage to Milman Parry. The style form of the Homeric epopee and the theory of poetic orality, Francoise Létoublon (ED.). Amsterdam, Gieben, 1997,419 pages of which index and general bibliography establish by the editor.
• of Vet Therese, Parry in Paris: Structuralism, Historical Linguistics, and the Oral Theory. Classical Antiquity October 2005, vol. 24, No 2, Pages 257-284
• of Lamberterie Charles 1997, " Milman Parry and Antoine Meillet" , in Homage to Milman Parry.
• Saussy Haun, “Writing in the Odyssey: Eurykleia, Parry, Jousse and the Opening off have Letter from Homer.” Arethusa 29 (1996), 299-338.
• Saussy Haun, “Without name of author: Jousse, Parry, Paulhan and Social Poetry.” It Cannocchiale: rivista di studi filosofici 1-3 (2005), 289-306.

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