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Oral traditional literature : a Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord

Title
Oral traditional literature : a Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord / John Miles Foley, editor.
Publication
Columbus, Ohio : Slavica Publishers, 1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Lord, Albert Bates.
  • Foley, John Miles.
Description
461 pages : portrait; 24 cm
Subject
  • Lord, Albert Bates > Bibliography
  • Lord, Albert Bates
  • Lord, Albert Bates
  • Lord, Albert Bates 1912-1991
  • Folk literature > History and criticism
  • Oral tradition
  • Oral-formulaic analysis
  • Folk literature
  • Bibliografie
  • Festschrift
  • Literatur
  • Mündliche Literatur
  • Mündliche Überlieferung
  • Volksliteratur
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Mondelinge literatuur
Genre/Form
  • Folk literature.
  • Bibliographies.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Littérature populaire.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction: The oral theory in context / by John Miles Foley -- The intricate web: thematic cohesion in Russian oral tradition verse narrative / Patricia Arant -- Myth and ritual: two faces of tradition / David E. Bynum -- Flyting in Beowulf and rebuke in The song of Bagdad: the question of theme / Francelia Clark -- The Beowulf-poet: master of sound-patterning / Robert P. Creed -- Legitimation and the hero's exemplary function in the Cantar de mio Cid and the Chanson de Roland / Joseph J. Duggan -- Feasts and anti-feasts in Beowulf and the Odyssey / Joanne De Lavan Foley -- Tradition-dependent and -independent features in oral literature: a comparative view of the formula / John Miles Foley -- The memory of Cædmon / Donald K. Fry -- The religious ballad of New Mexico and the Canary Islands: a comparative study of traditional features / William González -- Genealogy as oral genre in a Serbian village / Barbara Kerewsky Halpern -- Satire and the heroic life: two studies (Helgakviđa Hundingsbana I, 18 and Bjorn Hitdœlakappi's Grámagaflim) / Joseph Harris -- Oral composition in Middle High German epic poetry / Edward R. Haymes -- Narrative as precedent in Yorùbá oral tradition / Deidre La Pin -- Hispanic and South Slavic traditional narrative poetry and related forms: a survey of comparative studies (1824-1977) / John S. Miletich -- An evolutionary model for the text fixation of Homeric Epos / Gregory Nagy -- Formula and formulaic system in Beowulf / John D. Niles -- Oral-formulaic context: implications for the comparative criticism of mediaeval texts / Alain Renoir -- Oral literature in the Middle Ages / Bruce A. Rosenberg -- Memory, fixity, and genre in oral traditional poetries / with an essay by Albert Bates Lord.
ISBN
  • 0893570737
  • 9780893570736
LCCN
81210308
OCLC
  • ocm07804889
  • 7804889
  • SCSB-33787
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library