Michael D. C. Drout
Michael D. C. Drout is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He is the author of Tradition and Influence (forthcoming) and How Tradition Works: A Meme-Based Cultural Poetics of the Anglo-Saxon Tenth Century (2006), and has edited J. R. R. Tolkien’s Beowulf and the Critics (2003, rev ed. 2011), the J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia (2006), and the journal Tolkien Studies (2003-present).
Articles by Michael D. C. Drout
A Meme-Based Approach to Oral Traditional Theory
Volume 21, Issue 2 (October, 2006)Variation within Limits: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure and Dynamics of the Multiform
Volume 26, Issue 2 (October, 2011)
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