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Oral Tradition 21.2 (2006) 344

Index to Volume 21
Joseph Daniel Sobol
"Whistlin' Towards the Devil's House": Poetic Transformations and Natural Metaphysics in an Appalachian Folktale Performance      3
Nicky Marsh, Peter Middleton,
"Blasts of Language": Changes in Oral Poetics in and Victoria Sheppard Britain since 1965     44
Antonio Scuderi
Performance and Text in the Italian Carolingian Tradition      68
Elizabeth Oyler Daimokutate:
Ritual Placatory Performance of the Genpei War      90
Kenneth Sherwood
Elaborate Versionings: Characteristics of Emergent Performance in Three Print/Oral/Aural Poets     119
Jonathan Burgess
Neoanalysis, Orality, and Intertextuality: An Examination of Homeric Motif Transference      148
M. D. Usher
Carneades' Quip: Orality, Philosophy, Wit, and the Poetics of Impromptu Quotation      190
Penelope Skarsouli
Calliope, a Muse Apart: Some Remarks on the Tradition of Memory as a Vehicle of Oral Justice      210
Helen Yitah
Throwing Stones in Jest: Kasena Women's "Proverbial" Revolt      233
Françoise Ugochukwu
The Devil's Colors: A Comparative Study of French and Nigerian Folktales      250
Michael D. C. Drout
A Meme-Based Approach to Oral Traditional Theory      269
Anthony K. Webster Keeping the Word: On Orality and Literacy (With a Sideways Glance at Navajo)      295
Ademola O. Dasylva
"Culture Education" and the Challenge of Globalization in Modern Nigeria     325
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