Words as Events: Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition

"Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they are widely being exchanged as text mes...

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Main Author: Sykäri, Venla (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Helsinki Finnish Literature Society / SKS 2011
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