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Building on his work in Traditional Oral Epic and Immanent Art, the author aims to dissolve the perceived barrier between oral and written, creating a...
In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwid...
The Seat of Philip John Miles, ... With Etchings from the Whole Collection Executed by Permission of the Proprietor, and Accompanied with Historical and Biographical Notices
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The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croation Return Song
John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Fo...
Drawing on many examples including an American slam poet, a Tibetan paper-singer, a South African praise-poet, and an ancient Greek bard (Homer) the a...
History and Methodology
" . . . excellent book . . . " โThe Classical Outlook " . . . brief and readable . . . There is good tonic in these pages for the serious student of...
Pathways of the Mind
The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest tho...
An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography
Autobiography of John ''Mule'' Miles
John "Mule" Miles, former Negro League Baseball Player and one of the grounds crewmen for the Tuskegee Airman has encouraged my family and I to have f...
From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic
Examines the aesthetics of traditional oral epic. Foley believes that epics share meanings that are inherent in the traditional structures of the idio...
Orality, Memory, and Mark
Previous thinking regarding "oral tradition" imagined a one-way process of transmission, handing down the fairly intact textual chunks that would cons...
Police Novel
A Memorial for Milman Parry
A Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord
The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song
An Illustrated History of Weaponry in the Middle Ages
An illustrated survey of knights, their weapons, their battles and wars, and tournaments. Includes glossary of terms and an appendix detailing constru...
From Theoretical Foundations to Business Applications
A successful construction business is a knowledge business. And knowledge must be managed effectively to be used efficiently, especially in a complex ...
Discusses the importance of transportation and describes different types of vehicles and their uses....
Conceptual Design is one of the few areas of Engineering Design where computers have yet to make an impact. With the development of Knowledge Based Sy...
How did the forces that fought in the air affect the outcome of World War II? This book explores the units who battled it out to win supremacy in the ...
How did the forces that fought at sea affect the outcome of World War II? This book explores the ships and submarines that slugged it out to rule the ...
This 1995 book examines what it is that doctors do, and what patients expect of them....
Describes a variety of new inventions in such fields as medicine, computers, travel, and space technology and discusses their effect on our future liv...
Anthology of poems ; includes "Blacks in the Todd, Alice Springs" (pp.24-25)....
A Permanent Retirement by John Miles released on Dec 25, 1996 is available now for purchase....