| 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 |
| • | Albert Lord and the Concept of the Formula in Serbo-Croatian Oral Epic |
| A Classical Formulaic Analysis of Two Parry-Lord Texts |
| The Spectrum of Formulaic Diction |
| From Prosody to Traditional Rules |
| • | Summary |
| Six Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
| 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 |