January 1990 Volume 5, Number 1 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles The Effects of Oral and Written Transmission in the Exchange of Materials between Medieval Celtic and French Literatures: A Physiological View Annalee C. Rejhon ReviewEarnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales, Carl Lindahl Ward Parks A Typology of Mediation in Homer Keith Dickson The Singers and their Epic Songs Matija Murko King Solomon’s Magic: The Power of a Written Text Marie Nelson Preface to The Dialect of the Kara-Kirgiz Wilhelm Radloff Marcel Jousse: The Oral Style and the Anthropology of Gesture Edgard Richard Sienaert Worlds Apart: Orality, Literacy, and the Rajasthani Folk-Mahabharata John D. Smith Supplemental Materials About the Authors