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The Complexity of Oral Tradition
(1987-01)
"In challenging a remark I had once made while presenting a paper at a professional meeting, a member of the audience said that he could demonstrate that there was no oral tradition in sixteenth-century Spain. To me this ...
Man, Muse, and Story: Psychohistorical Patterns in Oral Epic Poetry
(1987-01)
Early studies of oral epic literature, that is, of epic literature composed without the aid of writing within a continuous tradition of some antiquity, focused quite logically and understandably on the somewhat mysterious ...
A Remark on Silence and Listening
(1987-01)
Why "remark"? Because I am still developing the theory, and also because this is a short presentation. Why "a" remark rather than "some" remarks? Because this is not a series of different lines of thought constellated ...
Orality and Literacy in Matter and Form: Ben Franklin's Way to Wealth
(1987-01)
The reader finishes Benjamin Franklin's Way to Wealth, first published as the preface to the silver-anniversary Poor Richard's Almanach of 1758, with the sense that an infinity of proverbs have followed one another in an ...
Two Functions of Social Discourse: From Lope de Vega to Miguel de Cervantes
(1987-01)
At the inevitable risk of oversimplification, I propose to approach as directly as possible a broad and complex question: how are we to view in an orderly way the many different social functions of language, both oral and ...
Migratory Shepherds and Ballad Diffusion
(1987-05)
Orality and Textuality in Medieval Castilian Prose
(1987-01)
This study evaluates several medieval Castilian prose works in light of recent investigations dealing with orality and textuality. As a homage to Father Walter Ong and his monumental scholarly contributions to communication ...
Peter Ramus, Walter Ong, and the Tradition of Humanistic Learning
(1987-01)
In the 1950's Walter Ong focused his attention on the sixteenth century Parisian philosopher and educationalist Peter Ramus, and published the results of his research in two major works, Ramus, Method and the Decay of ...
Text and Music in Romanian Oral Epic
(1988-10)
Annotated Bibliography
(1986-10)
The Message of the American Folk Sermon
(1986-10)
The Cosmic Myths of Homer and Hesiod
(1987-01)
Embedded in the narratives of the Homeric poems are a few passages which open windows on the ways in which the Homeric poet envisioned the cosmos around him. They occur as brief digressions, offering powerful but by no ...
In Defense of Romancero Geography
(1987-05)
"Ramón Menéndez Pidal’s pioneering essay “Sobre geografía folklórica. Ensayo de un método” (1920) constituted the first full-scale implementation of geographic methods in romancero studies. At a time when the very concept ...
Collecting Portuguese Ballads
(1987-05)
"The Spanish began to publish extensive collections dedicated exclusively to their ballads in the middle of the sixteenth century (see Rodríguez-Moñino 1973). These collections included versions of many poems that had ...