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Product Description: The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet. Despite superficial differences, both technologies are radically alike in depending not on static products but rather on continuous processes, not on "What?" but on "How do I get there?" In contrast to the fixed spatial organization of the page and book, the technologies of oral tradition and the Internet mime the way we think by processing along pathways within a network...read more

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9780252037184 | Univ of Illinois Pr, August 16, 2012, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet.

Paperback:

9780252078699 | Univ of Illinois Pr, August 16, 2012, cover price $30.00

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The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Pilgrims on their way to worship at the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket in Canterbury stop at the Tabard Inn. Representing a cross-section of medieval English society, the group includes a knight and his squire, a prioress, a friar, a miller, and a wife. To amuse themselves on their journey, they agree that each will tell a tale. These stories—by turns bawdy, hilarious, scurrilous, romantic, heroic, and moving—reveal a great deal about the tellers and the world they live in, which, despite the distance of six hundred years, seems remarkably like our own. Indeed, the structure of The Canterbury Tales and the sophisticated, intricate interplay between the stories, their narrators, and the general narrator (himself a complex comic character) give the book its strikingly modern flavor. Often called the first book of poetry written in English, Chaucer’s masterpiece is also the first anthology of English short fiction, one that will resonate with readers for as long as folly and courage, deceit and generosity, love and jealousy remain part of the human personality. Robert W. Hanning is Professor of English at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1961. He has published The Vision of History in Early Britain, The Individual in Twelfth-Century Romance, The Lais of Marie de France (co-translated with Joan Ferrante), and Castiglione: the Ideal and the Real in Renaissance Culture (co-edited with David Rosand), as well as many articles on Chaucer’s poetry and other medieval and Renaissance subjects. Peter Tuttle's most recent poetry is Looking for a Sign in the West, published by Back Short in 2003.
By John Miles Foley (introduced by)

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9780812978452 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, November 10, 2009), cover price $17.00
9781593083120 | Barnes & Noble, February 1, 2006, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

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By John Miles Foley (editor)

Hardcover:

9781405105248 | Blackwell Pub, September 23, 2005, cover price $239.95

Paperback:

9781405188388, titled "A Companion to Ancient Epic" | New edition (Blackwell Pub, November 10, 2008), cover price $63.95

Miscellaneous:

9781405153041, titled "A Companion to Ancient Epic" | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $194.95

Miscellaneous:

9780470996614, titled "A Companion to Ancient Epic" | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 25, 2008), cover price $200.00

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Hardcover:

9780271018706 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $69.95

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9780271028101 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $29.95

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Uses examples from Homer's Odyssey to contemporary urban America's slam poetry to explore the cultural contexts of this verbal artform, discussing the structure, principles, and social applications of the oral poem. (view table of contents)

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9780252027703 | Univ of Illinois Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Uses examples from Homer's Odyssey to contemporary urban America's slam poetry to explore the cultural contexts of this verbal artform, discussing the structure, principles, and social applications of the oral poem.

Paperback:

9780252070822 | Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Uses examples from Homer's Odyssey to contemporary urban America's slam poetry to explore the cultural contexts of this verbal artform, discussing the structure, principles, and social applications of the oral poem.

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Product Description:   This collection provides a benchmark that helps secure the position of collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the forefront of study of Native oral traditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Larry Evers (editor), John Miles Foley (foreword by) and Barre Toelken (editor)

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9780874214161 | Utah State Univ Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition:   This collection provides a benchmark that helps secure the position of collaboration between Native American and non-Native American scholars in the forefront of study of Native oral traditions.

Paperback:

9780874214154 | Utah State Univ Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: Research is beginning to unearth the astounding wealth of oral traditions that have served as a vital cultural activity and verbal art for peoples throughout the world, from antiquity to the present. In this thirteenth volume of the MLA series Options for Teaching, forty-two scholar-teachers bring these discoveries and rediscoveries from the scholarly forum to the classroom...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By John Miles Foley (editor)

Hardcover:

9780873523707 | Modern Language Assn of Amer, October 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Research is beginning to unearth the astounding wealth of oral traditions that have served as a vital cultural activity and verbal art for peoples throughout the world, from antiquity to the present.

Paperback:

9780873523714 | Modern Language Assn of Amer, October 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Research is beginning to unearth the astounding wealth of oral traditions that have served as a vital cultural activity and verbal art for peoples throughout the world, from antiquity to the present.

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Product Description: "A great book... " -- Choice"... a groundbreaking work of scholarship... "  -- Asian Folklore Studies"This extremely fascinating study opens an important chapter in the ethnography of speech, briliantly confirming the views advanced by Dell Hymes, Albert Lord and Richard Baumann...read more

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9780253322258 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: "A great book.

Paperback:

9780253209313 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 1995, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditional oral epics, with their individual histories, genres, and documents, as well as both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of their poetics...read more

Hardcover:

9780520064096 | Univ of California Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $85.00

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9780520084360 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr on Demand, October 1, 1993), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts.

Product Description: First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
By John Miles Foley (editor), Alain Renoir (editor), J. Chris Womack (editor) and W. A. Womack (other contributor)

Hardcover:

9780815303954 | Routledge, July 1, 1992, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: First published in 1992.

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Product Description: Oral tradition. Epic literature -- History and criticism.

Hardcover:

9780253322166 | Indiana Univ Pr, August 1, 1991, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Oral tradition.

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Product Description: Oral Formulaic Theory (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) [Mar 01, 1990] Foley, John Miles ... 0824084853

Hardcover:

9780824084851 | Taylor & Francis, April 1, 1990, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Oral Formulaic Theory (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) [Mar 01, 1990] Foley, John Miles .

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Product Description: "... excellent book... " ―The Classical Outlook"... brief and readable... There is good tonic in these pages for the serious student of oral tradition... a remarkable book." ―Asian Folklore Studies"The bibliography is a boon for students and faculty at any level who are curious about the nature, composition, and performance of oral poetry...read more

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9780253342607 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 1988, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: ".

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9780253204653 | Indiana Univ Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: ".

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Hardcover:

9780520041936, titled "Canterbury Tales" | Gardners Books, July 1, 1992, cover price $97.00 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales

Paperback:

9781517564445 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 28, 2015, cover price $21.55 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales
9781496056566 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 24, 2014, cover price $13.99 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales
9781452877877 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 2, 2010, cover price $21.00 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales
9781405862325, titled "Canterbury Tales" | 2 edition (Allyn & Bacon, August 27, 2008), cover price $11.99 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales
9780573080777, titled "Canterbury Tales" | Gardners Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $16.40 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales

CD/Spoken Word:

9781620649145, titled "The Canterbury Tales: A New Unabridged Translation by Burton Raffel" | Mp3 tra un edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, March 19, 2013), cover price $14.95

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781899644421 | Gardners Books, September 29, 2000, cover price $21.40 | also contains Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Tales, The Canterbury Tales

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Product Description: Book by
By John Miles Foley (editor)

Hardcover:

9780826204905 | Univ of Missouri Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: Book by John Miles Foley
By John Miles Foley (editor)

Hardcover:

9780893570736 | Slavica Pub, August 1, 1981, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by John Miles Foley

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