Tom Pettitt
Tom Pettitt is a Research Professor affiliated with the University of Southern Denmark’s Centre for Medieval Literature and Cultural Sciences Institute. Designed ultimately to elucidate the vernacular cultures of medieval Europe, his research encompasses oral traditions such as customs, ballads, wondertales, and legends, as well as folk aspects in the work of Renaissance dramatists. He has also contributed to exploring the notion of a “Gutenberg Parenthesis,” which suggests (in line with the work of John Miles Foley) a compatibility between digital and pre-print cultures.
Articles by Tom Pettitt
Ballads and Bad Quartos: Oral Tradition and the English Literary Historian
Volume 18, Issue 2 (October, 2003)From Journalism to Gypsy Folk Song: The Road to Orality of an English Ballad
Volume 23, Issue 1 (March, 2008)Written Composition and (Mem)oral Decomposition: The Case of “The Suffolk Tragedy”
Volume 24, Issue 2 (October, 2009)Text and Memory in the “Oral” Transmission of a Crime and Execution Ballad: “The Suffolk Tragedy” in England and Australia
Volume 28, Issue 1 (March, 2013)
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