口头传统史诗的内涵和特征

从20世纪后半叶起,随着人类学和民俗学的不断发展,人们在世界各地的当代社会中发现了大量的口头传统史诗,这些新材料的发现促使史诗研究者从东西方文明对话和文化多样性的角度反思史诗观念.它涉及史诗的口头创编和演述,涉及到史诗搜集、整理、适译和出版等一系列问题,这些问题也逐渐成为民俗学的热点问题.中国史诗研究者一直关注史诗的社会文化内容、历史渊源、流传地域和共享族群等问题,关于史诗文类特征、流布和传承特点、说唱艺人和仪式语境、特定集团的文化认同等,也逐渐构成了今天的史诗研究者主要关注的内容.

On the Connotation and Characteristics of Oral Traditional Epic

With the development of anthropology and folklore in the second part of the 20th century,a large amount of materials related to the oral traditional epics have been discovered and collected in the contemporary society worldwide.These newly discovered data have made epic researchers rethink the idea of epic under the perspective of dialogue of civilization and cultural diversity.The focus of this reflection closely relates to the epic composition,performance,collection,archiving,translation and publication.A...