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Title:

New directions in oral theory : essays on ancient and medieval literatures / edited by Mark C. Amodio.

Publisher:

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

341 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Literature--History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Oral tradition.

Other Authors:

Amodio, Mark.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : unbinding Proteus / Mark C. Amodio -- Fieldwork on Homer / John Miles Foley -- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey : from oral performance to written text / Steve Reece -- Orality and Aristotle's Aesthetics / Daniel F. Melia -- Proteus in Latin : vernacular tradition and the Boniface collection / Alexandra Hennessey Olsen -- Oral-formulaic tradition and the composition of Latin poetry from antiquity through the twelfth century / Jan M. Ziolkowski -- Deaths and transformations : thinking through the 'end' of Old English verse / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe -- Res(is)ting the singer : towards a non-performative Anglo-Saxon oral poetics / Mark C. Amodio -- Writing out "Ieinn's storm" : the literary reception of an oral-derived template in the two versions of Laþamon's Brut / Jonathan Watson -- A leash and an englyn in the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Culhwch ac olwen / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- The role of proverbs in Middle English narrative / Lori Ann Garner -- Writing the failure of speech in Pearl / Tim William Machan.

Series:

Medieval and renaissance texts and studies ; v. 287

ISBN:

9780866983303 (alk. paper)
0866983309 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57565187

LCCN:

2005002118

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)