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Albert Bates Lord, The Singer Resumes the Tale
Foreword
Preface
1. The Nature and Kinds of Oral Literature
2. Oral Traditional Lyric Poetry
3. Homer and the Muses: Oral Traditional Poetics, a Mythic Episode, and Arming Scenes in the Iliad
4. Beowulf and Oral Epic Tradition
5. The Formula in Anglo-Saxon Poetry
6. The Theme in Anglo-Saxon Poetry
7. The Ballad: Textual Stability, Variation, and Memorization
8. Rebuttal
9. Two Versions of the Theme of the Overnight Visit in The Wedding of Smailagić Meho
10. The Transitional Text
Bibliography
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