Oral Tradition Volume 24, Number 1March 2009
Table of Contents
Editor's Column |
The Southern Sardinian Tradition of the Mutetu Longu: A Functional Analysis by Paulu Zedda |
Presentation Formulas in South Slavic Epic Song by David F. Elmer |
The Art of Dueling with Words: Toward a New Understanding of Verbal Duels across the World by Valentina Pagliai |
Dialogues in Rhyme: The Performative Contexts of Cretan Mantinádes by Venla Sykäri |
Orality and Agency: Reading an Irish Autobiography from the Great Blasket Island by John Eastlake |
Paradigms of Social Aesthetics in Themne Oral Performance by Amadu Wurie Khan |
The Creation of Basque Oral Poetry by Four American Bertsolaris by Asier Barandiaran |
Are We “Misreading” Paul? Oral Phenomena and their Implication for the Exegesis of Paul’s Letters by Sam Tsang |
Storytellers of Children’s Literature and their Ideological Construction of the Audience by Bruno Alonso, Marta Morgade, David Poveda |
Performative Loci of the Imperial Edicts in Nara Japan, 749-70 by Ross Bender |
About the Authors |