Jeffrey Wills. Albert Lord as a Singer of Tales. Although Albert Lord was well-versed in dispassionate scholarly prose, he had also been a field worker and collector of epics, who was acutely aware of his role in the ...

Elizabeth C. Fine. «Lazy Jack»: Coding and Contextualizing Resistance in Appalachian Women’s Narratives. This article examines the dominant motifs and related versions of tale «Lazy Jack» to appreciate the changes Carter-Sexton ...

John Miles Foley. The Oral Theory: an Approach to Studies in Oral Tradition. The Oral Theory was initially created to solve the Homeric question. M. Parry proposed that the «author» of «Iliad» and «Odyssey» was actually ...