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Teaching oral traditions /

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Contains articles by a variety of teacher-scholars in which they discuss the nature and scope of oral traditions in literature, examine methods for studying oral traditions, present tutorials on commonly taught works and areas, and review pedagogical examples and audiovisual resources.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Foley, John Miles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Language Association, 1998.
Series:Options for teaching.
Subjects:
Oral tradition > Study and teaching.
Oral tradition in literature > Study and teaching.
Tradition orale > Étude et enseignement.
Tradition orale dans la littérature > Étude et enseignement.
17.74 teaching, profession and organizations of study of literature.
Mondelinge literatuur.
Literatuuronderwijs.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : An Audience for Oral Traditions / John Miles Foley
  • Part 1. Canon or Cornucopia?
  • The Impossibility of Canon / John Miles Foley
  • What Would a True Comparative Literature Look Like? / Lee Haring
  • The Performing Body on the Oral-Literate Continuum : Old English Poetry / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
  • Leading Proteus Captive : Editing and Translating Oral Tradition / Elizabeth C. Fine
  • Part 2. Critical Approaches
  • A Historical Glossary of Critical Approaches / Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
  • Contemporary Critical Approaches and Studies in Oral Tradition / Mark C. Amodio
  • The Ethnography of Performance in the Study of Oral Traditions / Richard Bauman and Donald Braid
  • Ethnopoetics / Thomas DuBois
  • Traditional Referentiality : The Aesthetic Power of Oral Traditional Structures / Nancy Mason Bradbury
  • Part 3. Praxis : Oral Traditions in the Classroom
  • Living Traditions
  • Native American Traditions (North) / Barre Toelken
  • Native American Traditions (South) / John H. McDowell
  • African Oral Narrative Traditions / Donald J. Cosentino
  • African American Traditions / Sw. Anand Prahlad
  • General Hispanic Traditions / John Zemke
  • Mexican American Oral Traditions / María Herrera-Sobek
  • Jewish Oral Traditions / Judith S. Neulander
  • Indian Oral Traditions / R. Parthasarathy
  • Oral Performance and Orally Related Literature in China / Mark Bender
  • Oral and Vocal Traditions of Japan / Shelley Fenno Quinn
  • Arabic Traditions / Susan Slyomovics
  • South Slavic Traditions / Ronelle Alexander
  • British American Balladry / John D. Niles
  • Teaching the Folktale Tradition / Steven Swann Jones
  • Women's Expressive Forms / Marta Weigle
  • Storytelling : Practice and Movement / Carol L. Birch
  • Texts with Roots in Oral Tradition
  • The Hebrew Scriptures / Martin S. Jaffee
  • New Testament Texts : Rhetoric and Discourse / Werner H. Kelber
  • Homer's Iliad and Odyssey / Richard P. Martin
  • Beowulf / Alexandra H. Olsen
  • Chaucer / Carl Lindahl
  • The Middle English Romance and the Alliterative Tradition / Leslie Stratyner
  • Old French Literature / Evelyn Birge Vitz
  • The Icelandic Sagas / Joseph Harris
  • The Frame Tale East and West / Bonnie D. Irwin
  • Part 4. Courses, Readings, and Resources
  • The National Curriculum and the Teaching of Oral Traditions / Lynn C. Lewis and Lori Peterson
  • Multiculturalism and Oral Traditions / Beverly J. Stoeltje and Nancy Worthington
  • Using Oral Tradition in a Composition Classroom / William Bernard McCarthy
  • Course Descriptions and Syllabi / Lynn C. Lewis and Lori Peterson
  • Selected Audiovisual and Internet Resources / Anastasios Daskalopoulos.