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  • by John Miles Foley
    £19.49

    Though they appear diverse, Homer's "Odyssey" and slam poetry from contemporary urban America both draw from the well of oral tradition. This guide explores the cultural contexts of verbal art to provide more-than-textual methods for understanding the structure, principles, and social applications of oral poetry.

  • - History and Methodology
    by John Miles Foley
    £11.49

    " -AnthropologicaPresents the first history of the new field of oral-formulaic theory, which arose from the pioneering research of Milman Parry and Albert Lord on the Homeric poems.

  • by John Miles Foley
    £27.49 - 54.99

    An examination of the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey", in order to establish a context for their original performance and modern-day reception. It disentangles the interwoven strands of orality, textuality and art.

  • - Pathways of the Mind
    by John Miles Foley
    £21.99 - 88.99

    Thinking beyond the page, and providing a rich nexus of human thought

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