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dc.contributor.authorRamey, Petereng
dc.date.issued2011-10eng
dc.descriptionThis short essay is written in appreciation of John Miles Foley, who has done more than any other contemporary scholar to probe the analogy between oral tradition and more recent Internet technology. He has explored this correlation both theoretically (most fully in The Pathways Project [2011-] and Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind [2012]) and methodologically (in, for instance, his 2004 electronic edition of The Wedding of Mustajbey's Son Becirbey), and in so doing he has opened up fresh perspectives on oral traditional aesthetics. In light of his contributions, I would like to build on his work in this area to consider an important feature of Beowulf, the recurring scenes of poetic performances by a singer (or scop), interpreting these moments as non-linear hyperlinks that connect the heroic narrative to a wider network of poetic tradition and thus help the audience navigate the thread of that heroic tale through a web of alternate songs and stories.1eng
dc.descriptionIssue title: Festschrift for John Miles Foley. This article belongs to a special issue of Oral Tradition published in honor of John Miles Foley's 65th birthday and 2011 retirement. The surprise Festschrift, guest-edited by Lori and Scott Garner entirely without his knowledge, celebrates John's tremendous impact on studies in oral tradition through a series of essays contributed by his students from the University of Missouri-Columbia (1979-present) and from NEH Summer Seminars that he has directed (1987-1996).eng
dc.format.extent8 pageseng
dc.identifier.citationOral Tradition, 26/2 (2011): 619-624.eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/65251
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.titleBeowulf's singers as tales of hyperlinkseng
dc.typeArticleeng


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