Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croation Return Song by John Miles Foley

Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croation Return Song

John Miles Foley

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nonfiction classics literary poetry challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first com...

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