The Ballad and Oral Literature

Abstract

Introduction Joseph Harris Technique, Text, and Context: Formulaic Narrative Mode and the Question of Genre Fleming G. Andersen Popular Modes of Narration and the Popular Ballad Hugh Shields Talerole Analysis and Child's Supernatural Ballads David Buchan Historical Moorings of The Gypsy Laddie: Johnny Faa and Lady Cassillis Sigrid Rieuwerts Americanization of Scottish Ballads: Counterevidence from the Southwest of Scotland William B. McCarthy Parity of Ignorance: Child's Judgment on Sir Cohn and the Scottish Verdict Not Proven Emily Lyle Literary Backgrounds of the Scandinavian Ballad Vesteinn Olason Oral Literature, Written Literature: Ballad and Old Norse Genres Bengt R. Jonsson Tradition and Innovation: Influence of Child Ballads on the Anglo-American Literary Ballad Natascha Wurzbach Cultural Diglossia and the Nature of Medieval Latin Literature Jan Ziolkowski Song and Dance: Reflections on a Comparison of Faroese Ballad with Greek Choral Lyric Gregory Nagy Ring Composition in Maldon or, a Possible Case of Chiasmus in a Late Anglo-Saxon Poem Albert B. Lord Middle English Popular Romance: Minstrel versus Hack Writer Karl Reichl Grakappan (AT 425) as Chapbook and Folktale in Sweden Stephen A. Mitchell Interplay of Genres in Oral Epic Performance: Differentially Marked Discourse in a Northern Egyptian Tradition Dwight Reynolds

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