Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Watkins, Part 1, Discussion Questions

1. What makes a verbal message a work of art? (pp. 3-6, 21-22, 26-28)

2. What is a FORMULA in Indo-European literary texts? (12-16)

3. What is the business of the IE poet, bard, skald? (25, 68-93)

4. What is the function of metrical prosody and sound patterning in a literary text? (pp. 34, 38, 46)

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