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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2023): Writing orality

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.56004/v2.2
Published: 2024-03-25

Editorial article

  • Introduction to ‘Writing orality’

    Bernardo Ballesteros, Domenico Giordani, Jordan Miller, James Parkhouse, Flaminia Pischedda
    1-10
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Articles

  • Naming the gods: traditional verse-making in Homer and Old Babylonian Akkadian poetry

    Bernardo Ballesteros
    11–50
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  • The recurring collocation of vreiðr and vega in Old Norse poetry

    James Parkhouse
    51–73
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  • ‘Going through all these things twice’: the repeated phrase and the refrain in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde

    H.C. Carter
    74–92
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  • A scribal device in oral clothing: functions of formulaic language in early Chinese divinatory texts

    Flaminia Pischedda
    93–118
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  • (Re)writing orality: editing the preaching of the Compileison de Dis Commandemenz

    Samira Lindstedt
    119–42
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  • Translating oral effects in East Asia: an Edo period version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

    Natasha Downs
    143–67
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  • Mouvance and the art of fiction in performance in manuscripts of a Demotic Egyptian novella

    Joseph Cross
    168–200
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  • Orality in a world of manuscripts: reconstructing Purāṇic composition, preservation and transmission on the basis of the Bhaviṣyapurāṇa

    Sanne Dokter-Mersch
    201–23
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Notice of collaboration

  • John P. Clay and the Clay Sanskrit Library

    224–7
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