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Language
  
English

Pages
  
640 pages

Author
  
ISBN
  
0195085957

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Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
16 November 1995

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Subject
  
Comparative Indo-European poetics

Similar
  
Comparative linguistics books, Other books

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How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics is a 1995 book about comparative Indo-European poetics by the linguist and classicist Calvert Watkins. It was first published on November 16, 1995 through Oxford University Press and is both an introduction to comparative poetics and an investigation of the myths about dragon-slayers found in different times and in different Indo-European languages. Watkins received a 1998 Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies) for his work on the book.

Contents

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Synopsis

The book consists of seven parts and 59 chapters and in the book Watkins uses a methodology of a combination of extremely close reading of text passages in the original with the comparative method. He claims that it is not possible to understand fully the traditional elements in an early Indo-European poetic text without the background of what he calls a "genetic intertextuality" of particular formulas and themes in all languages of the family.

Reception

Critical reception for the text since its release has been positive. The Classical Journal and the Journal of American Folklore both gave How to Kill a Dragon positive reviews, and The Journal of American Folklore remarked that it was a "landmark book". Journal of the American Oriental Society also praised the book, which they viewed as "a fundamentum which must henceforth serve as the starting point and inspiration for a discipline whose future is now secure."

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