Oral tradition, volume 05, number 1 (January 1990)

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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Editor's Column
  • About the Authors (Back Matter)
  • Articles
    • Worlds Apart: Orality, Literacy, and the Rajasthani Folk-Mahabharata
      by John D. Smith
    • King Solomon's Magic: The Power of a Written Text
      by Marie Nelson
    • A Typology of Mediation in Homer
      by Keith Dickson
    • Preface to The Dialect of the Kara-Kirgiz
      by Wilhelm Radloff
    • Marcel Jousse: The Oral Style and the Anthropology of Gesture
      by Edgard Richard Sienaert
    • The Singers and their Epic Songs
      by Matija Murko
    • The Effects of Oral and Written Transmission in the Exchange of Materials between Medieval Celtic and French Literatures: A Physiological View
      by Annalee C. Rejhon
    • Review Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales, Carl Lindahl
      by Ward Parks

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    A Typology of Mediation in Homer
    (1990-01) Dickson, Keith M.
    The tale of Iliad 1 proceeds along a linear course punctuated by crises at which alternative paths come into sight; choices are made, as if at crossroads, and then the narrative continues along the path ostensibly determined by those choices. What more specifically structures its progress is a rhythm of Crisis, Mediation, and Response, in which the latter event rarely marks a true narrative closure, but instead only opens out on further crises, paths that fork and fork again. A priest's appeal for restitution of his daughter is rejected by a king, and plague ensues. The mediation of a prophet leads on the one hand to approval and the propitiation of offended deity, but on the other to strife between warrior and king. An elder's attempt to mediate their conflict (in which the successful intercession of a goddess is itself embedded) fails to win acceptance, and the warrior withdraws from society. His crisis triggers a second divine intervention in the form of an appeal to the highest god, whose acquiescence on the one hand subordinates all the subsequent narrative to the guidance of a Plan, at the same time as it generates conflict with yet another deity. The book closes with successful mediation of their strife, with everything ostensibly right in heaven, though impending disaster among mortals.
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    The Singers and their Epic Songs
    (1990-01) Murko, Matija
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    King Solomon's Magic: The Power of a Written Text
    (1990-01) Nelson, Marie
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