Research is beginning to unearth the astounding wealth of oral
traditions that have served as a vital cultural activity and verbal
art for peoples throughout the world, from antiquity to the
present. In this thirteenth volume of the MLA series Options for
Teaching, forty-two scholar-teachers bring these discoveries and
rediscoveries from the scholarly forum to the classroom. The essays
in this exciting field touch on more than a hundred traditions and
draw from the methodologies of literary studies, folklore,
anthropology, and linguistics. They are filled with vivid
specifics. Among the subjects discussed are the unwritten roots of
the Bible; the genesis and art of the Homeric poems; Native
American traditions, like the Zuni "Deer Boy" tale and the Quechua
proverb "Corn-Planting Day"; the performance of the African
American toast "Stagolee"; Old English charms for afflictions;
Mexican American corridos; the Travelling People of Scotland;
African trickster tales; women's songs of mid-eleventh-century
Andalusia; a Yiddish picaresque narrative; the fifth-century Indian
Tale of an Anklet; South Slavic epics; the oral traditions behind
Beowulf and behind the Canterbury Tales; the professional
entertainers (jongleurs) of medieval France; and Icelandic sagas.
Teaching Oral Traditions demonstrates the importance of performance
and challenges many current assumptions about the authority of the
written word.
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