Study of Oral Tradition: History and Methods

ENGL M205A - Study of Oral Tradition: History and Methods

<p>(Same as English M205A.) Seminar, three hours. Exploration of scholarly and literary attempts to study, define, analyze, promote, and/or appropriate oral traditions, from Homer and ancient Greece to origins of vernacular literatures, European romantic (re)discovery of oral tradition, 20th-century heuristic models of oral composition, and modern-day electronic media and popular verbal genres, such as joking and rapping. S/U or letter grading.</p>

General Catalog

Study of Oral Tradition: History and Methods

SCAND M271

4 units