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Milman Parry
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'''Milman Parry''' (
1902 -
December 31935) was a scholar of
epic poetry.
He studied at the
University of California at Berkeley (B.A. and M.A.) and at the
University of Paris Sorbonne (Ph.D.). A student of the linguist
Antoine Meillet at the Sorbonne, Parry revolutionized
Homeric studies. In his dissertations, which were published in French in the 1920s, he demonstrated that the Homeric style is characterized by the extensive use of fixed expressions, or 'formulas', adapted for expressing a given idea under the same metrical conditions.
In his American publications of the 1930s Parry introduced the hypothesis that this peculiarity of Homer's style is to be explained by its being the characteristic style of
oral composition (the so-called Oral Formulaic Hypothesis). The dissemination of the idea of Homer as an oral poet was continued by his student
Albert Lord, most notably in ''The Singer of Tales'' (1960).
Between
1933 and
1935 Parry, at the time Associate Professor at Harvard University, made two trips to
Yugoslavia, where he studied and recorded oral traditional poetry of the
South Slavs.
Parry's collected papers were published posthumously: ''The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers on Milman Parry'', edited by Adam Parry, his son (Oxford University Press, 1971). The Milman Parry collection of records and transcriptions of Southslavic heroic poetry is now in the
Widener Library of
Harvard University.
He died in a gun accident.{{fact}}
External link
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The Milman Parry Collection at Harvard University
Category:1902 births Parry, Milman
Category:1935 deaths Parry, Milman
Category:Classical scholars Parry, Milman
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