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      Homer’s Traditional Art

      John Miles Foley

      An examination of the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey , in order to establish a context for their original performance and…

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      Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind

      John Miles Foley

      Thinking beyond the page, and providing a rich nexus of human thought

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      How to Read an Oral Poem

      John Miles Foley

      Though they appear diverse, Homer’s Odyssey and slam poetry from contemporary urban America both draw from the well of oral tradition. This guide explores the cultural contexts of verbal art…

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      Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind

      John Miles Foley

      Thinking beyond the page, and providing a rich nexus of human thought

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      The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology

      John Miles Foley

      –AnthropologicaPresents the first history of the new field of oral-formulaic theory, which arose from the pioneering research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord on the Homeric poems.

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      Teaching Oral Traditions

      Research is beginning to unearth the astounding wealth of oral traditions that have served as a vital cultural activity and verbal art for peoples throughout the world, from antiquity to…

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      A Companion to Ancient Epic

      A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic. It offers a multidisciplinary discussion of both long-standing…

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      A Companion to Ancient Epic

      Presents an overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. This book considers the interrelation between these different traditions. It covers such topics as the role of women, the…

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      Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croation Return Song

      John Miles Foley

      Employing linguistic and thematic analysis to compare The Odyssey , Beowulf and various folk tales from the Stolac district of Hercegovina, this study offers an innovative approach to the structural…

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      John Miles Foley’s World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory

      Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval music, this interdisciplinary and international collection of essays works to refine…

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      John Miles Foley’s World of Oralities: Text, Tradition, and Contemporary Oral Theory

      Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse, and Old English riddles, and medieval music, this interdisciplinary and international collection of essays works to refine…

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      Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory, and Mark

      Jonathan A. Draper,John Miles Foley,Richard A. Horsley

      This ground-breaking volume gathers the best new work in Gospels criticism centered on how the Gospels actually came to be: through oral tradition, story performance, and cultural memory.

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      The Canterbury Tales

      Geoffrey Chaucer

      From the exuberant Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend to the Miller’s worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.

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