RSS 1.0Oral tradition, volume 07, number 1 (March 1992)
Table of Contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Editor's Column
- About the Authors (Back Matter)
- Articles
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A Gaelic Songmaker's Response to an English-speaking Nation
by Thomas A. McKean -
Oral Poetry and the World of Beowulf
by Paul Sorrell -
Innervision and Innertext: Oral and Interpretive Modes of Storytelling Performance
by Joseph Sobol -
The Production of Finnish Epic Poetry—Fixed Wholes or Creative Compositions?
by Lauri Harvilahti -
Song, Text, and Cassette: Why We Need Authoritative Audio Editions of Medieval Literary Works
by Ward Parks -
Latin Charms of Medieval England: Verbal Healing in a Christian Oral Tradition
by Lea Olsan -
The Combat of Lug and Balor: Discourses of Power in Irish Myth and Folktale
by Joan N. Radner -
The Narrative Presentation of Orality in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
by Willi Erzgräber -
Symposium
Turkish Oral Tradition in Texas:
The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative
by Warren S. Walker -
Review
by Carolyn Higbie
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Oral tradition, volume 07, number 1 (March 1992)
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A Gaelic Songmaker's Response to an English-speaking Nation
(1992-03)"The bàird bhaile [village bard] was an important figure in Gaelic society for centuries and remained so until well after the Second World War. These unpaid, unofficial poets were the de facto spokesmen and -women for their ... -
Latin Charms of Medieval England: Verbal Healing in a Christian Oral Tradition
(1992-03)This is an essay to open a discussion of medieval Latin charms as a genre rooted in oral tradition. It will concern itself solely with materials drawn from manuscripts made in England from about A.D. 1000 to near 1500. One ... -
Song, Text, and Cassette: Why We Need Authoritative Audio Editions of Medieval Literary Works
(1992-03)"My purpose here is to advocate the use of these new facilities towards the better understanding of the past. Specifically, as a community of scholars, we ought to undertake systematic sponsorship and production of ... -
The Combat of Lug and Balor: Discourses of Power in Irish Myth and Folktale
(1992-03)"Over the past millennium, and probably much longer, the combat of Lug and Balor has been told and retold, written and rewritten, revised constantly in order to present in fictive form the key political and economic ... -
Innervision and Innertext: Oral and Interpretive Modes of Storytelling Performance
(1992-03)"Within the past twenty years there has evolved a national--even, to a limited extent, an international--community of performers who position themselves under the sign of a self-conscious revival of traditional storytelling. ... -
Oral Poetry and the World of Beowulf
(1992-03)Anyone who sets out to discuss Beowulf as an oral poem immediately places him- or herself on some rather shaky ground; for this is a hotly contested area where opinions are very definitely, even emotionally stated. I ... -
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 7/1 (1992)
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Front matter (Oral Tradition, 7/1, 1992)
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About the authors (Oral Tradition, 7/1, 1992)
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Reviews
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The Production of Finnish Epic Poetry -- Fixed Wholes or Creative Compositions?
(1992-03)During the verbalization (composition) process the singer can elaborate some details according to his own preferences and purposes. But in order to produce an entire epic song, he has to activate a number of systems ... -
Cover (Oral Tradition, 7/1, 1992)
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