Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-338).
Introduction : unbinding Proteus / Mark C. Amodio -- Fieldwork on Homer / John Miles Foley -- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey : from oral performance to written text / Steve Reece -- Orality and Aristotle's Aesthetics / Daniel F. Melia -- Proteus in Latin : vernacular tradition and the Boniface collection / Alexandra Hennessey Olsen -- Oral-formulaic tradition and the composition of Latin poetry from antiquity through the twelfth century / Jan M. Ziolkowski -- Deaths and transformations : thinking through the 'end' of Old English verse / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe -- Res(is)ting the singer : towards a non-performative Anglo-Saxon oral poetics / Mark C. Amodio -- Writing out "Ieinn's storm" : the literary reception of an oral-derived template in the two versions of LaĆ¾amon's Brut / Jonathan Watson -- A leash and an englyn in the medieval Welsh Arthurian tale Culhwch ac olwen / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- The role of proverbs in Middle English narrative / Lori Ann Garner -- Writing the failure of speech in Pearl / Tim William Machan