The Study of the Orally Transmitted Ballad: Past Paradigms and a New Poetics
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My purpose in this brief contribution is to characterize what I take to be the four dominant paradigms of past ballad studies, which still, in a way, influence modern research and to offer a few comments on the present state of affairs and on the need to develop a transformative poetics for the orally transmitted ballad.