Welcome to an open conference
organised by Finnish Literature Society and Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki!
Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art and Song
Wednesday 22nd – Friday 24th May 2019
Keynote lectures
Nigel Fabb (Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow):
Why is rhyme different from alliteration? A psychological and aesthetic account.
Seppo Heikkinen (Title of Docent in Latin Language and Roman Literature, University of Helsinki):
Multiple origins? Some observations on the medieval Latin rhyme.
Dwight Reynolds (Professor of Arabic Language & Literature, University of California):
Rhyme in Arabic Oral Poetry (including a performance of the Sirat Bani Hilal, the epic of the Bani Hilal Bedouin tribe).
Please find the programme linked below.
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