Publications

Publication details [#30232]

Aulestia, Gorka. 1995. Improvisational poetry from the Basque country. University of Nevada Press. xiii + 252 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | language and culture | oral poetry | traditional society

Language as a subject

Basque

Annotation

This book reviews the history of the Basque tradition of improvisational poetry by BERTSOLARIAK over the last centuries, discussing the lives, themes and styles of 17 great BERTSOLARIAK, with special reference to four of them: Extahun, Otano, Xalbaor and Amuriza.

Reviewed by

Fernandez, James. 1996. Review of $Improvisational poetry from the Basque country.