“Hear the Tale of the Famine Year”: Famine Policy, Oral Traditions, and the Recalcitrant Voice of the Colonized in Nineteenth-Century India
Gloria Goodwin Raheja
This essay considers the appearance of British colonial representations of Indian oral traditions in administrative documents concerning famine relief policies,…
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Beginning from the End: Strategies of Composition in Lyrical Improvisation with End Rhyme
Venla Sykäri
This essay examines the basic principles of constructing improvised verses with end rhyme in three contemporary cultures: mandinadhes, Mallorcan gloses,…
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The Transformation of Cyavana: A Case Study in Narrative Evolution
Emily West
The assessment of possible genetic relationships between pairs of proposed narrative parallels currently relies on subjective conventional wisdom-based criteria. This…
The Tale of Meleager in the Iliad
Jonathan Burgess
This essay employs narratology and oral theory in a close reading of Phoenix’s tale of the Kalydonian hero, Meleager, in…
Diachronic Homer and a Cretan Odyssey
Gregory Nagy
This essay explores the kaleidoscopic world of Homer and Homeric poetry from a combined diachronic and synchronic perspective. Linguists refer…
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