Elaborate Versionings: Characteristics of Emergent Performance in Three Print/Oral/ Aural Poets
Kenneth Sherwood
Literary studies regards the “poetry reading” as a marginal phenomenon. By resituating the published poems of Amiri Baraka, Kamau Brathwaite,…
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Performance and Text in the Italian Carolingian Tradition
Antonio Scuderi
The Italian chivalric-epic tradition is based primarily on medieval Carolingian lore from France. Oral and written manifestations of this tradition…
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Carneades’ Quip: Orality, Philosophy, Wit, and the Poetics of Impromptu Quotation
M. D. Usher
This paper explores the reworking of orally-derived poetry and myth amongst philosophers in the Hellenistic age. The specific topic is…
Calliope, a Muse apart. Some Remarks on the Tradition of Memory as a Vehicle of Oral Justice
Penelope Skarsouli
Our analysis of the special role of Calliope, the Muse of “the beautiful voice”, is based on four ancient Greek…
Daimokutate: Ritual Placatory Performance of the Genpei War
Elizabeth Oyler
This article explores the connections between a coming-of-age ritual in rural Japan and one of the important narratives underwriting the…
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“Blasts of Language”: Changes in Oral Poetics in Britain Since 1965
Nicky Marsh, Peter Middleton, Victoria Sheppard
This article examines how oral performances of poetry have proliferated over the past forty years to become an essential part…
Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality: An Examination of Homeric Motif Transference
Jonathan Burgess
In Homeric studies scholars have speculated on the influence of (non-surviving) preHomeric material on the Iliad. This article expands this…
