title: The Old Slavic Digenis Akritis: Free Retelling or Rhetorical Translation?
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metadata.value: Romanchuk, R.
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metadata.value: Shelton, L.
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metadata.value: Goldgof, R.
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metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:42:28Z
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metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:42:28Z
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metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.value: Romanchuk R., Shelton L., Goldgof R. The Old Slavic Digenis Akritis: Free Retelling or Rhetorical Translation? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 299–308.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.207
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6776
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metadata.value: André Vaillant, who resolved numerous problems around the Old Slavic version of the Byzantine “romantic
  epic” Digenis Akritis, claimed that it was not a translation, but “un récit libre d’après une version
  grecque du poème.” Indeed, in its “folklorism” and epic severity, the Slavic Digenis diverges radically
  from any extant Greek text, especially its closest relation, the highly romanticized Grottaferrata version.
  In many places where the Slavic Digenis diverges from the Greek versions, its compiler makes use
  of oral-traditional formulas or themes found in the Greek and South Slavic oral traditions: the Akritika
  or ballads of the Byzantine border guards, the Marko Kraljević cycle. Is the Slavic Digenis, radically
  transformed by oral-formulaic composition, a translation? Vernacular translators of the European Renaissance
  such as Louis Le Roy granted “the rhetorical resources of the target language … at the very
  least, ‘equivalent weight’ to those of the source text” (Kenneth Lloyd-Jones), while philologist-translators
  into Latin such as Henri Estienne (Stephanus) privileged the source language (Greek) and its
  resources. By analogy, the “rhetorical” oral-formulaicism of the Slavic Digenis may be distinguished
  from the literalism of “philological” translators of the Euthymian school. Refs 31.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Digenis Akritis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Devgenievo deianie
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: oral-formulaic composition
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Parry-Lord hypothesis
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metadata.value: formula
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: theme
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metadata.value: vernacular translation
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Old Slavic Digenis Akritis: Free Retelling or Rhetorical Translation?
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