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Case studies and the grid
Zuni and Kaqchikel Mayan oral poetry
Slam poetry
At the Nuyorican
Slam as performance
The Odyssey
The Siri Epic
The Song of Roland
A repertoire for reading oral poetry
Eighth Word: An Ecology of South Slavic Oral Poetry 188
Healing the body: Magical charms
Healing the spirit: Funeral laments
Tracking identity: Genealogies
Living the heritage: Epics
Christian epic: Marko, Kosovo, The Widow Jana
Moslem epic
Speaking in poetry: An unclassified species
A diverse ecology
Post-Script 219
Pre-script, para-script, post-script
Pathways
Cyber-editions and e-readers
Bibliography 227
Index 243
"How to Read an Oral Poem sets out to provide guidance in how to perform a very tricky intellectual exercise: the competent 'reading' of texts that exist in oral performance. It engages all the most pertinent scholarship with mastery and understanding."
-- Barre Toelken, author of Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksong and The Dynamics of Folklore
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