| dc.contributor.author | Rosenberg, Bruce A. | eng |
| dc.date.issued | 1986-10 | eng |
| dc.description | The original intention of the author had been to address oralformulaic theory, indirectly, through a detailed examination of American folk sermons that were spontaneously composed and orally delivered; but during the course of recording and interviewing--1966 until 1971--the compelling power of American folk preachers commanded attention in its own right. In the final measure, the research of this scholar and others has concentrated as much upon the folk preachers for their own sake (and intrinsic merits) as upon principles of composition in Homer and several medieval narrators. Rev. Rubin Lacy, Rev. Elihu Brown, and Rev. C. L. Franklin eventually crowded off the page of this research the names of Homer, Turoldus, and the Beowulf poet. The historical comparisons have been undertaken, and contemporary American folk preachers have proven to be of interest for what they can reveal not only about the compositional process of the making of Beowulf but about themselves and an American oral tradition as well.--Page 695-696. | eng |
| dc.description | Bruce A. Rosenberg (Brown University) is well known for his studies of medieval literature and folklore, particularly The Art of the American Folk Preacher (1970) and related subsequent articles. He has also written authoritatively on the oral formula, folktale morphology in Beowulf, and the oral performance of Chaucer's poetry. | eng |
| dc.format.extent | 33 pages | eng |
| dc.identifier.citation | Oral Tradition, 1/3 (1986): 695-727. | eng |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10355/64034 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.rights | OpenAccess. | eng |
| dc.rights.license | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License. | eng |
| dc.title | The Message of the American Folk Sermon | eng |
| dc.type | Article | eng |
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