Detailed Chapter Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Detailed Chapter Contents IX
4. Contributors XV
5. Preface XVII
6. Abbreviations XIX
7. Note on Transliteration XXI
8. INTRODUCTION
9. 1 Plotting the Map of Medieval Oral Literature 3
10. PART I. CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES
11. 2 Oral Theory and Medieval Literature 71
12. 3 The Written Word in Context: The Early Middle Ages 103
13. 4 Orality and Literacy: The Case of Anglo-Saxon England 121
14. 5 Performance and Performers 141
15. 6 Oral Poetics: The Linguistics and Stylistics of Orality 203
16. 7 Oral Literature, Ritual, and the Dialectics of Performance 225
17. PART II TRADITIONIS AND GENRES
18. 8 Older Germanic Poetry With a Note on the Icelandic Sagas 253
19. 9 Oral Tradition and Performance in Medieval Ireland 279
20. 10 Medieval German Literature: Literacy, Orality and Semi-Orality 295
21. 11 Middle English Romances and the Oral Tradition 335
22. 12 The Chanson de geste and Orality 353
23. 13 The Italian Cantari between Orality and Writing 371
24. 14 Court Poetry, Village Verse: Romanian Oral Epic in the Medieval World 387
25. 15 Hispanic Epic and Ballad 411
26. 16 The Late-Medieval Ballad 429
27. 17 Medieval Greek Epic Poetry 459
28. 18 The Song of Igor and its Medieval Context in Russian Oral Poetry 485
29. 19 Oral Traditions in a Literate Society: The Hebrew Literature of the Middle Ages 499
30. 20 Woman’s Song in Medieval Western Europe 521
31. 21 Popular Song and the Middle English Lyric 555
32. 22 The Pastourelle as a Popular Genre 581
33. 23 Andalusī-Arabic Strophic Poetry as an Example of Literary Hybridization: Ibn Quzmān’s ‘Zajal 147’ (The Poet’s Reluctant Repentance) 601
34. 24 Orality and the Tradition of Arabic Epic Storytelling 629
35. 25 Orality in Medieval Persian Literature 653
36. 26 Medieval Turkish Epic and Popular Narrative 681
37. 27 Dramatic Pastime, Custom and Entertainment 701
38. Notes on the Illustrations 725
39. Index 729