Calvert Watkins's How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics, published by Oxford University Press in 1995, is a major peer reviewed scholarly study of shared poetic formulas and mythic motifs, particularly the dragon slaying myth, reconstructed across Indo-European languages and literatures. Its authority rests on standard university press review and Watkins's standing as one of the foremost Indo-European linguists of his generation. Its comparative method, reconstructing shared inherited material from related but geographically separated traditions, is itself a specialist methodology whose specific reconstructions remain open to revision as comparative linguistics continues to develop.
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Calvert Watkins's How to Kill a Dragon, Oxford University Press, 1995, the top tier reflecting standard university press review and Watkins's standing as one of the foremost Indo-European linguists of his generation. Its comparative method, reconstructing shared inherited material across related but separated traditions, is itself a specialist methodology whose specific reconstructions remain open to revision. NotesWatkins's scholarly study of Indo-European poetic formulas and mythic motifs.
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AuthorCalvert Watkins
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year1995
Source Typeacademic monograph
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Languages, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Mythical Creatures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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