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  Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative •• Türk Öykürleri Sandığı
Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative •• Türk Öykürleri Sandığı
The dastan is ornate oral history and an important part of the Turkic literature of Central Asia.
is still alive, part of the dastan oral tradition.
www.aton.ttu.edu /Central_Asias_New_Dastans.asp   (6541 words)

  
 Herodotus and the North Carolina Oral Narrative Tradition
The oral pre-history of Greek prose has been relatively neglected, although the work of Aly early in the century and of others like Lang, Murray, Thomas, and Evans on oral tradition and Herodotus in the last decade have indicated more work to be done.
The text we have is not a transcription of an oral performance or performances,[9] but is based on stories conceived and developed for oral performance and in an oral performance tradition.
The new Simonides papyrus,[21] which confirms the existence of narrative elegy on historical subjects, and indeed on a subject contemporary with the author, the battle of Plataea, also points to closer ties between the poetic and prose spheres than we have been willing to credit.
www.dur.ac.uk /Classics/histos/1997/stadter.html   (13140 words)

  
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Oral Traditions and the Verbal Arts: A Guide to Research Practices.
Jones, James H. "Commonplace and Memorization in the Oral Tradition of the English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Journal of American Folklore, 74 (1961), 95-112.
Rosenberg, Bruce A. "The Aesthetics of Traditional Narrative." In Directions in Literary Criticism: Contemporary Approaches to Literature.
www.ucs.mun.ca /~wbarker/fairies/byrne.html   (2899 words)

  
 Folklore Fellows
Her main interests are folk belief and narratives, death, magic, worldviews, and the adoption, representation and various uses of traditional concepts.
In addition to oral narratives her studies have covered enigmatology, popular dream interpreting and old wedding customs.
She has written extensively on narratives, ritual, material culture, and ethnic diversity in the United States and northern Europe and has also worked on methodological issues in ethnology and folkloristics.
www.folklorefellows.org /netw/ffn23/6th_summer_school.html   (3125 words)

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