Table of Contents
      The Singer of Tales
      Albert B. Lord

      Part I. The Theory

      Chapter 1     Introduction
      Chapter 2     Singers: Performance and Training
      Chapter 3     The Formula
      Chapter 4     The Theme
      Chapter 5     Songs and the Song
      Chapter 6     Writing and the Oral Tradtion

      Part II. The Application

      Chapter 7     Homer
      Chapter 8     The Odyssey
      Chapter 9     The Iliad
      Chapter 10   Some Notes on Medieval Epic

      Appendices
      Notes
      Index


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