October 1994 Volume 9, Number 2 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles SymposiumThe Study of the Orally Transmitted Ballad:Past Paradigms and a New Poetics Teresa Catarella The Ethnography of Scribal Writing and Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Scribe as Performer A. Nicholas Doane Ethnopoetics, Oral-Formulaic Theory, and Editing Texts Dell Hymes Oral Genres and the Art of Reading in Tibet Anne Klein Editing Beowulf: What Can Study of the Ballads Tell Us? John D. Niles Informing Performance: Producing the Coloquio in Tierra Blanca Pamela Ritch, Richard Bauman Forrest Spirits: Oral Echoes in Leon Forrest’s Prose Bruce A. Rosenberg Homer’s Style: Non-Formulaic Features of an Oral Aesthetic Joseph Russo Performing A Thousand and One Nights In Egypt Susan Slyomovics Supplemental Materials About the Authors