Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition

An open-access journal devoted to the study of the world’s oral traditions, past and present.

Reaching a diverse and global audience, Oral Tradition publishes articles that explore the vitality of words spoken, sung, or performed, and the traditions of creative expression in which they thrive. Issues appear once annually, with occasional special issues.

Founded at the University of Missouri by John Miles Foley, Oral Tradition now has a new home at Harvard University. This site will add new features as they are developed.

Reaching a diverse and global audience, Oral Tradition publishes articles that explore the vitality of words spoken, sung, or performed . . .

Volume 33, Issue 1

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About the Authors

Oral Tradition Volume 33, Number 1 Richard Hughes Gibson Richard Hughes Gibson is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and…

Oral Tradition and the Dead Sea Scrolls

Shem Miller

Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):3-22 The Dead Sea Scrolls are a cache of ancient manuscripts written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek…

An Examination of the Poetics of Tibetan Secular Oratory: An A mdo Tibetan Wedding Speech

Timothy Thurston

Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):23-501  On an auspicious day, two families from Ne’u na Village, a small village along the Yellow River in Western China’s Qinghai Province, gather to celebrate…

Magic Questions: The Rhetoric of Authority in South Slavic Epic Song

Milan Vidaković

Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):51-88 People who pose questions and practitioners of magic have one thing in common: they claim power…

Does Hector’s Helmet Flash?: The Fate of the Fixed Epithet in the Modern English Homer

Richard Hughes Gibson

Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):89-114 The most important question raised by studies in oral tradition is “So what?”—John Miles Foley, “Oral…

The Myth of Milman Parry: Ajax or Elpenor?

Steve Reece

Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):115-142 The Myth of Milman Parry Oral traditions are creative: they romanticize and sensationalize otherwise mundane events.…

Oral Tradition Journal

Email

journal@oraltradition.org

Address

Boylston 223, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Also see

Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature

ISSN

E-ISSN 1542-4308

© Oral Tradition Journal 2019