| 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 |
| Seven Thematic Structure in the Odyssey |
 | 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 |
| From Idiolect to Dialect: The Individual Singers Community |
| • | From Dialect to Language: The Stolac singers and the Epic Tradition |
| • | Conclusion |
| Nine Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry |
| Ten Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song |
| Eleven Conclusion |
| Appendix |
| References |
| Index |