Oral Tradition Journal at Harvard University

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Phemius’ Last Stand: The Impact of Occasion on Tradition in the Odyssey

Toward an Evolutionary Ontology of Beauty

The Oral Aesthetic and the Bicameral Mind

The Evolution of an Oral Tradition: Race-Calling in Canterbury, New Zealand

Serial Defamation in Two Medieval Tales: The Icelandic Oelkofra Thattir and the Irish Scela Mucce Meic Datho

Tradition, But What Tradition and For Whom?

There’s Nothing Natural About Natural Conversation: A Look at Dialogue in Fiction and Drama

Compound Diction and Traditional Style in Beowulf and Genesis A

Literary Aesthetics in Oral Art

Folk Traditions in Serbo-Croatian Literary Culture