Oral Tradition Volume 2, Number 1January 1987

Table of Contents

Editor's Column

The Cosmic Myths of Homer and Hesiod by Eric A. Havelock

Characteristics of Orality by Albert B. Lord

The Complexity of Oral Tradition by Bruce A. Rosenberg

Man, Muse, and Story: Psychohistorical Patterns in Oral Epic Poetry by John Miles Foley

The Authority of the Word in St. John’s Gospel: Charismatic Speech, Narrative Text, Logocentric Metaphysics by Werner H. Kelber

Early Christian Creeds and Controversies in the Light of the Orality-Literacy Hypothesis by Thomas J. Farrell

Orality and Textuality in Medieval Castilian Prose by Dennis P. Seniff

Peter Ramus, Walter Ong, and the Tradition of Humanistic Learning by Peter Sharratt

The Ramist Style of John Udall: Audience and Pictorial Logic in Puritan Sermon and Controversy by John G. Rechtien

“Voice” and “Address” in Literary Theory by William J. Kennedy

The Making of the Novel and the Evolution of Consciousness by Ruth El Saffar

Two Functions of Social Discourse: From Lope de Vega to Miguel de Cervantes by Elias L. Rivers

The Harmony of Time in Paradise Lost by Robert Kellogg

Orality and Literacy in Matter and Form: Ben Franklin’s Way to Wealth by Thomas J. Steele

A Remark on Silence and Listening by Paolo Valesio

Speech Is the Body of the Spirit: The Oral Hermeneutic in the Writings of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy by Harold M. Stahmer

Rahner on Sprachregelung: Regulation of Language? Of Speech? by Frans Jozef van Beeck

Literacy, Commerce, and Catholicity: Two Contexts of Change and Invention by Randolph F. Lumpp

Coming of Age in the Global Village by James M. Curtis

Orality-Literacy Studies and the Unity of the Human Race by Walter J. Ong

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