October 1992 Volume 7, Number 2 Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles SymposiumCurrent State of Studies in Oral Tradition in Japan Hiroyuki Araki “Sound Shaping” of East Slavic Zagovory Alla Astakhova On the Composition of Women’s Songs Mary P. Coote Storytelling in Medieval Wales Sioned Davies Beowulf: The Monsters and the Tradition Marilynn Desmond Homer and Oral Tradition: The Type-Scene Mark W. Edwards Repetition as Invention in the Songs of Vuk Karadžić Svetozar Koljević Narrative Proverbs in the African Novel Emmanuel Obiechina Supplemental Materials About the Authors