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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1974
The study of oral literature is among the many areas to which Wilfred Whiteley made an important contribution. He was one of the founder editors of the extensive ‘Oxford Library of African Literature’, and played an essential part in both the development of the study of African oral literature and the maintenance of scholarly standards through generous
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The study of oral literature is among the many areas to which Wilfred Whiteley made an important contribution. He was one of the founder editors of the extensive ‘Oxford Library of African Literature’, and played an essential part in both the development of the study of African oral literature and the maintenance of scholarly standards through generous
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2006
Abstract European-language writers like Senghor, Kane, Achebe and Soyinka are not the only professional authors in West Africa. The region is also dense with ‘ >griots> ’, who fulfill vital social and cultural roles as performers and interpreters, as praise-singers, oral historians, storytellers, singers, dancers, and ...
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Abstract European-language writers like Senghor, Kane, Achebe and Soyinka are not the only professional authors in West Africa. The region is also dense with ‘ >griots> ’, who fulfill vital social and cultural roles as performers and interpreters, as praise-singers, oral historians, storytellers, singers, dancers, and ...
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2000
Croatian oral literature (fairy tales, tales, legends and other prose forms; ritual and drama dialogues; epic and lyrical poems, ballads; sayings, riddles) are denoted and determined by deeply interwoven historical links. Croatian oral literature shows contacts and interweaving with diverse traditions, those of the Mediterranean Basin, Central Europe ...
Marks, Ljiljana, Lozica, Ivan
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Croatian oral literature (fairy tales, tales, legends and other prose forms; ritual and drama dialogues; epic and lyrical poems, ballads; sayings, riddles) are denoted and determined by deeply interwoven historical links. Croatian oral literature shows contacts and interweaving with diverse traditions, those of the Mediterranean Basin, Central Europe ...
Marks, Ljiljana, Lozica, Ivan
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Folklore, 2018
Karl Reichl, the veteran researcher of both Middle English romances and Turkic oral epic, has assembled a dream team of international experts, including the late John Miles Foley, Joseph Harris, Th...
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Karl Reichl, the veteran researcher of both Middle English romances and Turkic oral epic, has assembled a dream team of international experts, including the late John Miles Foley, Joseph Harris, Th...
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Oral literature, fictitious orality
2018Within the framework of the conceptions of orality and writing prevalent in Latin American cultural practice, the author attempts an approach to the relationship between the contradictory notion of ‘oral literature’ and the redundant notion of ‘written literature’, that is, between orality as a real communication phenomenon, when it occurs as verbal ...
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2018
Native Americans carefully trained their memories to record and transmit vast bodies of knowledge verbatim because, in an oral society, the known universe always stood only one generation from loss. ‘Oral literatures’ explains that indigenous tales instruct in ethics, ecology, religion, or governance, and record ancient migrations, catastrophes ...
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Native Americans carefully trained their memories to record and transmit vast bodies of knowledge verbatim because, in an oral society, the known universe always stood only one generation from loss. ‘Oral literatures’ explains that indigenous tales instruct in ethics, ecology, religion, or governance, and record ancient migrations, catastrophes ...
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