Books in the series Poetics of Orality and Literacy address the interpretation of major Western sources in terms of their deep roots in older oral tradition. The series concentrates on texts of the ancient and medieval worlds. The multidisciplinary projects shed new light on the interfaces of orality and literacy in major Western works of verbal art.
Complete Series: Please note that these series are now complete and not accepting submissions.
Oral Poetics and Architecture in Early Medieval England
by Lori Ann Garner
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: May 2011
Format: Paperback
Structuring Spaces illuminates the idiomatic and traditional meanings invested in depictions of architecture within the vernacular verse of early medieval England.
DuBois draws on sets of lyric songs from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland to explore the question of meaning in folklore, especially the role of traditional audiences in appraising and understanding nonnarrative songs.
Oral Poetics and Literate Culture in Medieval England
by Mark C. Amodio
Price: $28.00
Pub Date: November 2004
Format: Paperback
Mark Amodio’s book focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse produced in England from the fifth to the fifteenth century. His primary aim is to explore how a living...
