 | Foreword
by Joseph Falaky Nagy |
| Introduction and Tabula Gratulatoria
by Lori Ann Garner, R. Scott Garner |
| Juxtaposing Cogadh Gáedel re Gallaib with Orkneyinga saga
by Thomas A. DuBois |
| Toward an Ethnopoetically Grounded Edition of Homer’s Odyssey
by Steve Reece |
| Matija Murko, Wilhelm Radloff, and Oral Epic Studies
by Aaron Phillip Tate |
| “A Swarm in July”: Beekeeping Perspectives on the Old English Wið Ymbe Charm
by Lori Ann Garner, Kayla M. Miller |
| Cicero the Homerist
by Carolyn Higbie |
| Toward a Ritual Poetics: Dream of the Rood as a Case Study
by Heather Maring |
| Oral Tradition and Sappho
by R. Scott Garner |
| Variation within Limits: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure and Dynamics of the Multiform
by Michael D. C. Drout |
| Leslie Marmon Silko and Simon J. Ortiz: Pathways to the Tradition
by Dave Henderson |
| “Stricken to Silence”: Authoritative Response, Homeric Irony, and the Peril of a Missed Language Cue
by Andrew E. Porter |
| Vernacular Phrasal Display: Towards the Definition of a Form
by Adam Brooke Davis |
| The Role of Memory in the Tradition Represented by the Deuteronomic History and the Book of Chronicles
by Raymond F. Person, Jr. |
| Memory on Canvas: Commedia dell’Arte as a Model for Homeric Performance
by Timothy W. Boyd |
| Changing Traditions and Village Development in Kalotaszentkirály
by Wayne Kraft |
| Intentionally Adrift: What The Pathways Project Can Teach Us About Teaching and Learning
by Bonnie D. Irwin |
| Sean-nós i gConamara / Sean-nós in Connemara: Digital Media and Oral Tradition in the West of Ireland
by Holly Hobbs |
| The Metonym: Rhetoric and Oral Tradition at the Crossroads
by Catherine Quick |
| Heroic Register, Oral Tradition, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure
by Rebecca Richardson Mouser |
| Prisons, Performance Arena, and Occupational Humor
by Claire Schmidt |
| Beowulf’s Singers of Tales as Hyperlinks
by Peter Ramey |
| Rethinking Individual Authorship: Robert Burns, Oral Tradition, and the Twenty-First Century
by Ruth Knezevich |
| “A Misnomer of Sizeable Proportions”: SMS and Oral Tradition
by Sarah Zurhellen |
| The Old English Verse Line in Translation: Steps Toward a New Theory of Page Presentation
by Derek Updegraff |
| Communication Then and Now
by Bruce E. Shields |
| Remix: Pathways of the Mind
by Morgan E. Grey |
| A Personal Appreciation: How John Miles Foley Laid the Foundation for My Life in an Ashram
by Ward Parks |
| Annotated Bibliography of Works by John Miles Foley
by R. Scott Garner |
This special issue of Oral Tradition is published in honor of John Miles Foley’s 65th birthday and 2011 retirement. The surprise Festschrift, guest-edited by Lori and Scott Garner entirely without his knowledge, celebrates John’s tremendous impact on studies in oral tradition through a series of essays contributed by his students from the University of Missouri-Columbia (1979-present) and from NEH Summer Seminars that he has directed (1987-1996).