Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond

Contents

• Part I Critical Reflections on Epic Studies.
• 1. Homer to Arimpil: The Pardigm Shift in International Epic Studies.
• 2. The History of Epic Research.
• 3. Current Issues in Epic Research.
• 4. John Miles Foley and Recent Research Trends on Oral Traditions. 5 Gregory Nagy: From the Homeric Question to Homeric Questions.
• 6. Lauri Honko: The Identity Function of Epic Poetry.
• Part II Theories and Methods of Oral Poetics.
• 7. Oral Poetics and the Oral Formulaic Theory.
• 8. Field Investigations of Oral Epic Transmission.
• 9. Oral Poetics and Chinese Epic Research: Interview with the Author.
• 10. Types of Oral Epic Texts: A Mongol Case Study.
• 11. "Back to Voice": The Study of Oral Epic Texts.
• 12. "How Long is Long": Epic Length.
• Part III Indigenous Research on Mongolian Oral Poetics.
• 13. Mongolian Oral Epic Poetry.
• 14. The Oirat Epic Cycle of Jangar.
• 15. Analysis of Mongolian Epic Formulae.
• 16. Analysis of Mongolian Epic Prosody.
• Part IV Comparative Study of Four Epic Traditions.
• 17. Five Issues in the Study of Mongolian, South Slavic, Ancient Greek, Old English Epic