October 2002 Volume 17, Number 2 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Oral Tradition and Contemporary Critical Theory. II Mark C. Amodio Written on the Wind: An Introduction to Auralture Vladimir Guerrero Ubiquitous Format? What Ubiquitous Format? Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee as a Proverb Collection Betsy Bowden Cynewulf at the Interface of Literacy and Orality: The Evidence of the Puns in Beowulf Samantha Zacher Transforming Experience into Tradition: Two Theories of Proverb Use and Chaucer’s Practice Nancy Mason Bradbury The Minim-istic Imagination: Scribal Invention and the Word in the Early English Alliterative Tradition Johnathan Watson Rites of Passage and Oral Storytelling in Romanian Epic and the New Testament Margaret Hiebert Beissinger The Social and Dramatic Functions of Oral Recitation and Composition in Beowulf John M. Hill No One Tells You This: Secondary Orality and Hypertextuality Michael Joyce Supplemental Materials About the Authors