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Table of Contents

Editor's Column

John Miles Foley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0002
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Revenge of the Spoken Word?: Writing, Performance, and New Media in Urban West Africa

Moradewun Adejunmobi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0004
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Singing Dead Tales to Life: Rhetorical Strategies in Shandong Fast Tales

Eric Shepherd
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0006
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Crossing Boundaries, Breaking Rules: Continuity and Social Transformation in Trickster Tales from Central Asia

Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Raushan Sharshenova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0008
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A Case Study in Byzantine Dragon-Slaying: Digenes and the Serpent

Christopher Livanos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0010
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The Forgotten Text of Nikolai Golovin: New Light on the Igor Tale

Robert Mann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0000
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Collecting South Slavic Oral Epic in 1864: Luka Marjanović's Earliest Account

Aaron Phillip Tate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0001
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Possibilities of Reality, Variety of Versions: The Historical Consciousness of Ainu Folktales

Minako Sakata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0003
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Pir Sultan Abdal: Encounters with Persona in Alevi Lyric Song

Paul Koerbin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0005
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Ritual Scenes in the Iliad: Rote, Hallowed, or Encrypted as Ancient Art?

Margo Kitts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0007
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About the Authors

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ort.2011.0009
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