| LC control no. | n 80065545 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Parry, Milman |
| Birth date | 1902-06-20 |
| Death date | 1935-12-03 |
| Field of activity | Homeric studies Oral tradition |
| Profession or occupation | Classicist |
| Found in | His Les formules et la métrique d'Homère, 1928. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1902; d. 12/3/35) English Wikipedia website, viewed July 24, 2017 (Milman Parry (June 20, 1902--Dec. 3, 1935) was a scholar of epic poetry and the founder of the discipline of oral tradition. student of the linguist Antoine Meillet at the Sorbonne, Parry revolutionized Homeric studies. In his dissertations, which were published in French in 1928, he demonstrated that the Homeric style is characterized by the extensive use of fixed expressions, or 'formulas', adapted for expressing a given idea under the same metrical conditions. Meillet introduced him to Matija Murko, who had worked on oral epic traditions in Bosnia and had made phonograph recordings of some performances) |
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