This collection brings together newly commissioned and cutting-edge essays on oral text and tradition ranging from the ancient and medieval world to the present day by a leading group of European and North American oral theorists. Using a range of materials including the Bible, Greek epic, Beowulf, Old Norse and Old English riddles, and medieval music, the contributors collectively work to refine, challenge, and further advance contemporary Oral Theory, an interdisciplinary school of thought heavily influenced by John Miles Foley, whose work provides the jumping-off point for this volume. The book includes a useful introduction to the history of oral theory and Foley’s ground-breaking and influential work.
- COVER
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION: THE PATHWAY(S) FROM ORAL-FORMULAIC THEORY TO CONTEMPORARY ORAL THEORY
- INTRODUCTION TO THE INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
- ORALITY AND LITERACY REVISITED
- PRESERVING TRADITIONS OF “THEM” AND THE CREATION OF “US”: FORMULAIC LANGUAGE, HISTORIOGRAPHY, MYTHOLOGY, AND SELF-DEFINITION
- BEYOND BOOKS: THE CONFLUENCE OF INFLUENCE AND THE OLD ENGLISH JUDITH
- EMBODYING THE ORAL TRADITION: PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVE POETICS IN AND OF BEOWULF
- PERFORMING ANGLO-SAXON ELEGIES: A CONVERSATION
- NOTES ON THE RECORDINGS OFTHREE ANGLO-SAXON ELEGIES
- HEALING CHARMS IN THE LINCOLN THORNTON MANUSCRIPT
- IS THE “FORMULA” THE KEY TO ORAL COMPOSITION?
- THE FORMULA: MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX
- OLD NORSE RIDDLES AND OTHER VERBAL CONTESTS IN PERFORMANCE
- PERFORMANCE ARCHAEOLOGY, EIRÍKSMÁL, HÁKONARMÁL, AND THE STUDY OF OLD NORDIC RELIGIONS
- “TO SURF THROUGH THE SHAREDRICHES OF THE STORY HOARD”: THE oAGORA OF THE SIGURÐR STORY
- WHEN A HERO LIES
- “THE TRUE NATURE OF THE AOIDOS”: THE KIRGHIZ SINGER OF TALES AND THE EPIC OF MANAS
- JOHN MILES FOLEY: OPEN MIND, OPEN ACCESS, OPEN TRADITION, OPEN FOLEY
- MASTER BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED
- INDEX
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