title: The theme in oral poetry as exemplified by the Faroese Ragnars Táttur
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metadata.value: Piotrovsky, Dmitry
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metadata.value: 2021-08-17T18:11:44Z
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metadata.value: 2021-08-17T18:11:44Z
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metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Piotrovsky D. The theme in oral poetry as exemplified by the Faroese Ragnars Táttur. Scandinavian Philology, 2021, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 61–70.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2021.104
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32758
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metadata.value: The theme as well as the formula is one of two basic elements of Parry and Lord’s
  theory. A. B. Lord defines the “themes” of oral poetry as “the groups of ideas regularly
  used in telling a tale in the formulaic style of traditional song”. The theme happens to be
  a bilateral unit having both the plane of content and the plane of expression. The presence
  of the plane of content is self-evident and axiomatic. The theme in oral Faroese
  poetry possesses also the plane of expression. The proof of this statement is the fact that
  the realization of the same theme or some similar themes in different ballads or within
  the same piece of oral poetry presupposes the use of the same units of the lower level
  i.e., formulas and repetitions. The theme is a bilateral unit having its proper position in
  the unit system of the poetic language. It boasts its own level status. From the point of
  view of the level structure, the theme occupies the medium place between the formulas
  and the whole text. The interaction of the theme and both neighboring levels may be
  described as whole-part relationship. To the means of formula technique, formulas and
  repetitions, the theme behaves as the whole; to the text it plays the role of a part. Such
  a hierarchical structure creates the effect that the features of some units within this
  system influence the features of other units.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 19; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theme
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oral poetry
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Faroese ballads
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: formula
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: formula technique
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The theme in oral poetry as exemplified by the Faroese Ragnars Táttur
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metadata.value: Article
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