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Uses examples from Homer's Odyssey to contemporary urban America's slam poetry to explore the cultural contexts of this verbal artform, discussing the structure, principles, and social applications of the oral poem.
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John Miles Foley is William H. Byler Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the editor and founder of the journal Oral Tradition. Among his recent books are Traditional Oral Epic (1990) and The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995).
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REVIEWS "This is a very subversive book, liable to undo a lot of assumptions about literacy, reading, poetry, artistry, cultural superiority, and progress." --Virginia Quarterly Review
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- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0252027701
- ISBN 13 9780252027703
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages280
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