RSS 1.0Oral tradition, volume 07, number 2 (October 1992)
Table of Contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Editor's Column
- About the Authors (Back Matter)
- Articles
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Narrative Proverbs in the African Novel
by Emmanuel Obiechina -
Storytelling in Medieval Wales
by Sioned Davies -
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Tradition
by Marilynn Desmond -
Homer and Oral Tradition: The Type-Scene
by Mark W. Edwards -
On the Composition of Women's Songs
by Mary P. Coote -
Repetition as Invention in the Songs of Vuk Karadžić
by Svetozar Koljević -
"Sound Shaping" of East Slavic Zagovory
by Alla Astakhova -
Symposium:
Current State of Studies in Oral Tradition in Japan
by Hiroyuki Araki
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About the authors (Oral Tradition, 7/2, 1992)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Tradition
(1992-10)Grendel's attack on Heorot and the resulting battle with Beowulf is undeniably the most vivid and memorable scene in Beowulf and quite possibly in all of Anglo-Saxon narrative. Arthur Brodeur has commented on its narrative ... -
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, ... -
Narrative Proverbs in the African Novel
(1992-10)"The situation in modern Africa amply illustrates the point about the merging of the worlds of orality and literacy. The superimposition of alphabetic writing upon the oral cultures of Africa in the nineteenth century did ... -
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 7/2 (1992)
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Front matter (Oral Tradition, 7/2, 1992)
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Current State of Studies in Oral Tradition in Japan
(1992-10)"Language is deeply related to the personality of its culture, and Japanese is strikingly different from Western languages. The styles of Yanagita and Origuchi are especially emotion-oriented. This quality leads to ... -
"Sound Shaping" of East Slavic Zagovory
(1992-10)In this paper, the traditional devices that serve to create the "sound shaping" of a certain speech genre are examined. In particular, we are concerned with the performance of East Slavic zagovory, oral charms that are ... -
Cover (Oral Tradition, 7/2, 1992)
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