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- Title
Matrici folcloriche del Ciclope omerico Un esempio recente della tradizione orale pugliese.
- Authors
Cappelli, Piero
- Abstract
The article proposes the translation (from the dialect) of a folktale collected on July 19, 1985 from the voice of Anna De Bellis, an elderly lady met during a much wider research started in Cassano delle Murge (BA) from 1984 to 2002. This story recalls the content of the Homeric Kuklopeia (Odyssey, IX, 181-566). After providing the contextual coordinates (individual and situational) of the tale, the study focuses on the folkloric and literary variants of the ATU 1137 type (The Blinded Ogre), highlighting the constitutive elements of the traditional oral story. They identify the folkloric matrices of the Homeric tale and the anteriority and independence of the popular oral tradition (which has come down to us), as compared to the literary one. Finally, some stylistic peculiarities of De Bellis’ performance are analyzed in which the personal contributions of the narrator are recognized in the building of a traditional narrative variant.
- Subjects
ORAL tradition; ORAL communication; TALE (Literary form); FOLKLORE; ETHNOLOGY; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Archivio di Etnografia, 2021, Issue 2, p49
- ISSN
1826-9125
- Publication type
Article