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Missouri alumnus, volume 071, number 03 (1983 March-April)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1983)
Homer and the Oral Tradition: The Type-Scene
(1992-10)
This is a type-scene plan for Homer and the oral tradition of Ancient Greece. A type-scene "may be regarded as a recurrent block of narrative with an identifiable structure, such as a sacrifice, the reception of a guest, ...
On the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture for general spin groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
In the 1990s, Benedict Gross and Dipendra Prasad formulated an intriguing conjecture connected with restriction laws for automorphic representations of a particular group. More recently, Gan, Gross, and Prasad extended ...
Storytelling in Medieval Wales
(1992-10)
Very little is known of the storyteller and his functions in medieval Welsh society. Welsh sources imply that tales were recited in prose by professional storytellers--the cyfarwyddiaid (singular cyfarwydd). In medieval ...
"O Bride Light of My Eyes": Bridal Songs of Arab Women in the Galilee
(1993-10)
"Oral poetry is rapidly becoming a new field of interest for many scholars. Of particular interest are the problems of the whole tradition of oral transmission and the influence of oral tradition on written tradition. ...
Homer and the Roland: The Shared Formular Technique, Part II
(1993-10)
A continuation of Sale's earlier article, (8/1 [1993]:87-142), on the statistical analysis applied to the study of Homer and the Song of Roland.
On the Composition of Women's Songs
(1992-10)
Coote delves into the differences inherent to Serbo-Croatian folksongs, namely how they are subdivided into heroic songs (the gusle, sung exclusively by men) and women's songs (which can be sung by both women and young ...
Immanence and immanent truth
(1995-10)
Cover (Oral Tradition, 12/1, 1997)
(1997-03)