| Description |
461 pages : portrait ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction The oral theory in context / by John Miles Foley -- The intricate web: thematic cohesion in Russian oral tradition verse narrative / Patricia Arant -- Myth and ritual: two faces of tradition / David E. Bynum -- Flyting in Beowulf and rebuke in The song of Bagdad: the question of theme / Francelia Clark -- The Beowulf-poet: master of sound-patterning / Robert P. Creed -- Legitimation and the hero's exemplary function in the Cantar de mio Cid and the Chanson de Roland / Joseph J. Duggan -- Feasts and anti-feasts in Beowulf and the Odyssey / Joanne De Lavan Foley -- Tradition-dependent and -independent features in oral literature: a comparative view of the formula / John Miles Foley -- The memory of Cædmon / Donald K. Fry -- The religious ballad of New Mexico and the Canary Islands: a comparative study of traditional features / William González -- Genealogy as oral genre in a Serbian village / Barbara Kerewsky Halpern -- Satire and the heroic life: two studies (Helgakviđa Hundingsbana I, 18 and Bjorn Hitdœlakappi's Grámagaflim) / Joseph Harris -- Oral composition in Middle High German epic poetry / Edward R. Haymes -- Narrative as precedent in Yorùbá oral tradition / Deidre La Pin -- Hispanic and South Slavic traditional narrative poetry and related forms: a survey of comparative studies (1824-1977) / John S. Miletich -- An evolutionary model for the text fixation of Homeric Epos / Gregory Nagy -- Formula and formulaic system in Beowulf / John D. Niles -- Oral-formulaic context: implications for the comparative criticism of mediaeval texts / Alain Renoir -- Oral literature in the Middle Ages / Bruce A. Rosenberg -- Memory, fixity, and genre in oral traditional poetries / with an essay by Albert Bates Lord |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Lord, Albert Bates.
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Lord, Albert Bates (Albert Bates) -- Bibliography.
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Lord, Albert Bates -- Bibliography.
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Folk literature -- History and criticism.
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Folk literature.
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Oral tradition.
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Oral-formulaic analysis.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Foley, John Miles.
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Lord, Albert Bates.
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| LC no. |
81210308 |
| ISBN |
0893570737 |
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