Showing posts with label Tues. June 23rd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tues. June 23rd. Show all posts

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)