Ward Parks
Ward Parks is the author of Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative: The Old English and Homeric Traditions (1990) and numerous articles combining interests in medieval English and ancient Greek oral traditional poetry with a perspective from contemporary critical theory. He now resides in Ahmednagar, India, where he has served since 1998 as part of a research team editing and reconstructing materials for the Avatar Meher Baba Trust.
Articles by Ward Parks
The Oral-Formulaic Theory in Middle English Studies
Volume 1, Issue 3 (December, 1986)Review
Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales, Carl Lindahl
Volume 5, Issue 1 (January, 1990)
Song, Text, and Cassette: Why We Need Authoritative Audio Editions of Medieval Literary Works
Volume 7, Issue 1 (March, 1992)A Personal Appreciation: How John Miles Foley Laid the Foundation for My Life in an Ashram
Volume 26, Issue 2 (October, 2011)
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