| Traditional Oral Epic |
| Preface |
 | One Traditional Oral Poetics |
| • | Contemporary Issues |
| • | A Program for Reading Traditional Texts |
| • | Application of The Program: Approaches to Reading Five Traditional Texts |
| Two Comparability of the Documents |
| • | The Journey of the Homeric Texts |
| The Riddle of Cotton Vitellius A. XV. |
| • | Manuscript Authority |
| • | Implications for Comparative Analysis |
| The Yugoslav Guslari and Their Tradition |
| The Guslari of Stolac |
| • | Ibrahim Basic |
| • | Halil Bajgoric : |
| • | Mujo Kukuruzovic |
| • | The Parry Collection Texts Used for Comparison |
| Three Comparative Prosody |
| • | Prologus |
| • | Method |
| • | The Indo-European Question |
| • | Prosody and Prosodies |
| • | Prosody and Formulaic Structure: Their Interrelationship |
| The Homeric Hexameter |
| • | Outer Metric |
| • | Inner Metric |
| • | Summary of Inner Metric |
| The Junacki Deseterac (Heroic Decasyllable) |
| • | Outer Metric |
| Inner Metric |
| • | Caesura |
| • | Colon 2 and The Shape of The verse |
| • | Colon 1 |
| • | Summary: The Deseterac |
| The Old English Alliterative Line |
| • | The Beginnings: Sievers and Some Basic Principles |
| • | The Idiosyncratic Nature of Old English Meter |
| • | The Metrical Foundation |
| • | Patterns and Systems |
| • | Prosody and Composition |
| • | Coda |
| Four Traditional Phraseology in the Odyssey |
| • | The Formula: Original Concepts And Developments |
| • | A Tradition-Dependent Homeric Phraseology |
| Two Phraseological Analyses |
| • | Formulaic Structure and Epea Pteroenta ("Winged Words") |
| • | Odyssey 5.424-44: Formulaic Structure and Traditional Rules |
| • | Discussion of the Passage |
| • | Conclusion |
| 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 |
| • | Text 1 |
| • | Text 2 |
| The Spectrum of Formulaic Diction |
| • | The Complexity of the Phraseology |
| • | Synchrony, Diachrony, and the Deseterac |
| From Prosody to Traditional Rules |
| • | Deseterac Rules and the Diction |
| Examples of Traditional Composition from the Stolac Guslari |
| • | Mujo Kukuruzovic |
| • | Halil Bajgoric |
| • | Summary |
| 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 |
| • | Quantitative Analysis |
| • | Traditional Rules: A Summary |
| Seven Thematic Structure in the Odyssey |
| • | Prior Scholarship |
| • | Expectable Phraseological Makeup |
| Three Thematic Analyses |
| • | The Bath |
| • | The Greeting Theme |
| • | The Feast Theme |
| Eight Thematic Structure in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| • | Prior Scholarship |
| • | A Singer's Pause and Thematic Structure |
| Multiformity Within the Traditional Theme: "Shouting in Prison" |
| Mujo Kukuruzovic and the Idiolectal Theme |
| • | Motif # 1 |
| • | Motif #2 |
| • | Motif #3 |
| • | Motif #4 |
| From Idiolect to Dialect: The Individual Singers Community |
| • | Motif #1 |
| • | Motif #2 |
| • | Motif #4 |
| • | From Dialect to Language: The Stolac singers and the Epic Tradition |
| • | Conclusion |
| Nine Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
| Prior Research |
| • | Origins |
| • | A Brief Summary of Scholarship |
| • | Current Issues |
| • | The Tradition-Dependent Nature of Old English Themes |
| Two Example Themss |
| • | The Sea Voyage in Beowulf |
| • | The Scourging Scent in Andreas |
| • | The Relationship Between Phraseology and Narrative Structure |
| Ten Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| • | A Singer's Error |
| • | The Return Song |
| The Singers and Their Songs |
| Ibro Basic and the Alagic Alija and Velagic Selim |
| • | The General Plot of AAVS |
| • | The Story-Pattern of AAVS |
| Mujo Kukuruzovic and the Extended Return Song |
| • | The OA and AA Songs |
| • | The General Plot of AA/OA, Section 1 |
| • | The Story-Pattern of AA/OA, Section I |
| • | Kukuruzovic's Error: a First Approximation |
| • | OA, Section II: Story and Story-Pattern |
| • | AA, Section: Story and Stoy-Pattern |
| • | The AA/OA: Its Fundamental Form |
| • | Conclusion |
| Eleven Conclusion |
| Appendix |
| • | Supporting Evidence for Analysis of Text I (examples only) |
| • | Supporting Evidence for Analysis of Text II (examples only) |
| References |
| Index |
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