Traditional Oral Epic |
Preface |
One Traditional Oral Poetics |
Two Comparability of the Documents |
Three Comparative Prosody |
Four Traditional Phraseology in the Odyssey |
Five Traditional Phraseology in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
Six Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
• | From Prosody to Formulaic Structure |
• | The Spectrum of Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf |
• | Grendel's Approach to Heorot and Traditional Structure |
Analysis |
• | Traditional Rules: A Summary |
Seven Thematic Structure in the Odyssey |
Eight Thematic Structure in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
Nine Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
Ten Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
Eleven Conclusion |
Appendix |
References |
Index |