Ruth Finnegan
Ruth Finnegan FBA is Visiting Research Professor and Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University (UK), and the author of many works concerned with orality, literacy, and communication. Her books include Limba Stories and Story-Telling (1967), Oral Literature in Africa (1970), Oral Poetry (1977, rpt. 1992), Orality and Literacy (1988), The Hidden Musicians (1989), Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts (1992), South Pacific Oral Traditions (jt ed., 1995), Tales of the City (1998), Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection (2002).
Articles by Ruth Finnegan
"Oral Tradition": Weasel Words or Transdisciplinary Door to Multiplexity?
Volume 18, Issue 1 (March, 2003)The How of Literature
Volume 20, Issue 2 (October, 2005)Introduction: or, Why the Comparativist Should Take Account of the South Pacific
Volume 5, Issue 2-3 (May, 1990)Tradition, But What Tradition and For Whom?
Volume 6, Issue 1 (January, 1991)
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