Temporal Patterning and “Degrees of Orality” in Occitan and French Oral Narrative
Janice Carruthers, Marianne Vergez-Couret
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):91-122 Introduction This article explores tense usage and tense-switching in the temporal structuring of Occitan and French…
Type-Token Ratio and Entropy as Measures to Characterize a Forgery of Oral-Formulaic Epics
David L. Cooper, Demetry Ogoltsev, Michal Ondrejcek
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):37-62 The Queen’s Court and Green Mountain Manuscripts (Rukopisy královédvorský a zelenohorský, together abbreviated “RKZ” in Czech)…
Driva Qele / Stealing Earth: Oral Accounts of the Volcanic Eruption of Nabukelevu (Mt. Washington), Kadavu Island (Fiji), ~2,500 Years Ago
By Loredana Lancini, Patrick Nunn, Meli Nanuku, Kaliopate Tavola, Taniela Bolea, Paul Geraghty, Rita Compatangelo-Soussignan Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):63-90 Introduction…
“It Has Not Yet Become Pacified”: Kings, Hunting, and the Murder of the Father in Sanskrit Epic
Emily Blanchard West
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):3-36 The Mahābhārata and Ramāyaṇa present us with eight primary and embedded narratives in which an archer…
Editor’s Column
This latest issue of Oral Tradition arrives somewhat later than the editors had hoped. It took us some time to…
About the Authors
Oral Tradition Volume 36, Number 1 Taniela Bolea Born and bred in Ravitaki Village on the main island of Kadavu, Taniela…
Ethnopoetic Transcription and Multimodal Archives: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach to Slam Poetry Scholarship
Cara Losier Chanoine
Oral Tradition, 36/1 (2023):123-48 Slam is a relatively young genre of poetry, created in 1985 by a Chicago construction worker…
