Foley. Traditional Oral Epic

Today's free book is Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song by John Miles Foley (1991); it is available online as part of the University of California Press ebook initiative: link. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

Table of Contents

Traditional Oral Poetics

Comparability of the Documents

Comparative Prosody

Traditional Phraseology in the Odyssey

Traditional Phraseology in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song

Traditional Phraseology in Beowulf and Old English Poetry

Thematic Structure in the Odyssey

Thematic Structure in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song

Thematic Structure in Beowulf and Old English Poetry

Story-Pattern in the Serbo-Croatian Return Song

Conclusion