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The Singer of Tales in Performance
Preface I. Common Ground: Oral-Formulaic Theory and the Ethnography of Speaking II. Ways of Speaking, Ways of Meaning III. The Rhetorical Persistence of Traditional Forms IV. Spellbound: The Serbian…
The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology
- J. Foley
- History
- 1 October 1989
Foreword by Alan Dundes Preface I. Philology, Anthropology, and the Homeric Question II. Milman Parry: From Homeric Text to Homeric Oral Tradition III. Albert Lord: Comparative Oral Traditions IV.…
Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
- W. McCarthy, J. Foley
- Linguistics
- 21 January 1993
John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body…
How to read an oral poem
- J. Foley
- Education
- 2002
Foley shows that although oral poetry long predates the invention of writing, it continues to be a vital culture-making and communications tool
Homer's Traditional Art
- S. Wienker-Piepho, J. Foley
- Art
- 1999
Homer's Traditional Art represents a disentangling of the interwoven strands of orality, textuality, and verbal art. It shows how we can learn to appreciate how Homer's art succeeds not in spite of…
Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt
- J. Foley
- History
- 1 September 2008
Acknowledgements Notes on the text and abbreviations Introduction 1. The Absurd 2. Camus and Combat 3. The Rebel 4. Camus and Political Violence 5. Camus and Sartre 6. Camus and Algeria Conclusion…
A companion to ancient epic
- J. Foley
- History
- 2005
28.72 MB Free download A Companion to Ancient Epic book PDF, FB2, EPUB and MOBI. Read online A Companion to Ancient Epic which classified as Other that has 696 pages that contain constructive…
Epea and grammata : oral and written communication in ancient Greece
- I. Worthington, J. Foley
- Education
- 21 December 2001
This volume deals with aspects of orality and oral traditions in ancient Greece, and is a selection of refereed papers from the fourth biennial Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece conference, held…
Word-Power, Performance, and Tradition
- J. Foley
- Linguistics
- 22 January 1992
Oral-Formulaic Theory and Performance-centered approaches (Ethnography of Speaking, Ethnopoetics) share a fundamental concern with the "untextuality" of traditional oral narrative. The present…
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