Homers Traditional Art . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. A volume devoted to answering the question What difference does oral tradition make to our understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey? Part I begins the study by inv...

Teaching Oral Traditions . New York: Modern Language Association. A collection of 39 essays (plus an introduction by Foley) centered on the teaching of oral traditions, particularly within the undergraduate classroom. Part I (Canon or Cornu...

The Singer of Tales in Performance . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. A volume that continues the work of Traditional Oral Epic (1990) and Immanent Art (1991) by exploring the connections between oral-formulaic and performance-based t...

Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Oral Traditional Epic . Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Building on the investigation into traditional structure presented in Traditional Oral Epic (1990) and also upon the Receptionalist ap...

The Wedding of Mustajbeys Son Beirbey as Performed by Halil Bajgori . Folklore Fellows Communications, 283. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica. (eEdition available at http://oraltradition.org/zbm ) An edition and translation of The Wedd...

Oral-Formulaic Theory: A Folklore Casebook . New York: Garland Publishing. Collection of reprinted texts that touch in some important way on the origin, evolution, or response to oral-formulaic theory (xiv)....

The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Rpt. 1992. (Chinese Version: Trans. by Chogjin, published by the Social Science Documentation Publishing House, 2000. Rpt. 2009.) A comprehensiv...

Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song . Berkeley: University of California Press. Rpt. 1993. Begins the process of developing a traditional oral poetics by which to understand the structural and aes...

Oral Tradition in Literature: Interpretation in Context . Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Collection of essays considering how we read works of literature that stem from oral traditions, and what difference a works orality makes to...

Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography . New York: Garland Publishing. Rpt. 1986, 1989. The introduction contains a comprehensive history of scholarship and research in the field from its beginnings t...