Unraveling the Knot
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):45-72 Click here to access the eCompanion. Introduction Proverbs are storehouses of traditional wisdom and are highly valued in Africa. Among… Read More
Editor’s Column
I am pleased to present to readers Oral Tradition Volume 34, comprising four essays that demonstrate, in the diversity of their topics and approaches,… Read More
Learning to be Satisfied
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):73-104 In memory of Barre Toelken1 “This is so, isn’t it?” —F. R. Leavis (1972:62)… Read More
Orality and Social Memory in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Oral Tradition, 34 (2020):105-20 As any reader of Lolita knows, Vladimir Nabokov’s novel is characterized by the strong, central voice of its narrator, Humbert Humbert,… Read More
About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 34 Dorian Jurić Dorian Jurić is a Canadian cultural anthropologist, folklorist, and railroad maintenance foreman whose research explores the political life of… Read More
About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 33, Number 1 Richard Hughes Gibson Richard Hughes Gibson is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and the author of Forgiveness in Victorian… Read More
Editors’ Column
Volume 33 marks a major transition for Oral Tradition. After thirty-two fruitful years at the University of Missouri, the journal has now found a new home… Read More
Magic Questions
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):51-88 People who pose questions and practitioners of magic have one thing in common: they claim power and authority over others. They… Read More
An Examination of the Poetics of Tibetan Secular Oratory
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 a wedding. The… Read More
The Myth of Milman Parry
Oral Tradition, 33/1 (2019):115-142 The Myth of Milman Parry Oral traditions are creative: they romanticize and sensationalize otherwise mundane events. The memory of a historical… Read More