It is my view that oral tradition is the source of all of the world's literary traditions. Two principal concerns have driven my work (1995, 2000, 2002): the collection of examples of living oral literature (ballads, songs, proverbs, legends, stories, oral history, and epics) in different countries and traditions (Spain, Hispanoamerica, central Africa), and the comparative study of world literary traditions from Homer to Garcia Marquez.Not
The oral tradition is a field defined by what it is not--it is oral, not written. But the barrier be...
Coming from the field of folklore studies, I understand by oral tradition the oral transmission and ...
A key player among Iberian oral traditions, the pervasive and resilient pan-Hispanic romancero merit...
We are concerned here with the oral traditions of Hispanic or Iberian peoples: speakers of Spanish (...
The transmission of knowledge by means of oral literary forms, so strongly attacked by Plato in the ...
Folklore and Literature is a collection of entertaining yet scholarly writing with something for e...
For a folklorist it is difficult to think about oral tradition other than through the perspectives p...
Folklore and Literature is a collection of entertaining yet scholarly writing with something for e...
"In challenging a remark I had once made while presenting a paper at a professional meeting, a membe...
My area of research is the folktale, marvelous tales in particular. Over the past six years I have b...
In the field of folklore, the study of "oral tradition" cannot be an either/or proposition. Rather, ...
It is easier, I think, to say what oral tradition can be rather than what it is. I have been working...
In the vast system of forms and modes of communication denominated by the syntagma "oral" tradition,...
In Japan, the term "oral traditions" covers not only those songs, proverbs, and folktales usually co...
The study of literature entails several fundamental concerns. These usually include matters of creat...
The oral tradition is a field defined by what it is not--it is oral, not written. But the barrier be...
Coming from the field of folklore studies, I understand by oral tradition the oral transmission and ...
A key player among Iberian oral traditions, the pervasive and resilient pan-Hispanic romancero merit...
We are concerned here with the oral traditions of Hispanic or Iberian peoples: speakers of Spanish (...
The transmission of knowledge by means of oral literary forms, so strongly attacked by Plato in the ...
Folklore and Literature is a collection of entertaining yet scholarly writing with something for e...
For a folklorist it is difficult to think about oral tradition other than through the perspectives p...
Folklore and Literature is a collection of entertaining yet scholarly writing with something for e...
"In challenging a remark I had once made while presenting a paper at a professional meeting, a membe...
My area of research is the folktale, marvelous tales in particular. Over the past six years I have b...
In the field of folklore, the study of "oral tradition" cannot be an either/or proposition. Rather, ...
It is easier, I think, to say what oral tradition can be rather than what it is. I have been working...
In the vast system of forms and modes of communication denominated by the syntagma "oral" tradition,...
In Japan, the term "oral traditions" covers not only those songs, proverbs, and folktales usually co...
The study of literature entails several fundamental concerns. These usually include matters of creat...
The oral tradition is a field defined by what it is not--it is oral, not written. But the barrier be...
Coming from the field of folklore studies, I understand by oral tradition the oral transmission and ...
A key player among Iberian oral traditions, the pervasive and resilient pan-Hispanic romancero merit...