oral literature
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Norman Douglas cottoned onto the fact that children’s games were a source of oral literature that lay outside of other kinds, and had not been studied before.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012
Unsurprisingly, the performances – given that the storytellers are not allowed to use notes – tend towards the raw and unstructured; they also occasionally blur the distinction between oral literature and stand-up comedy.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2010
His story is oral literature at its best.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the purpose of both was to preserve intact the rhythms and patterns of a primitive, oral literature.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was in that language an oral literature of a peculiar and interesting character.
From The Discovery of America by the Northmen, 985-1015 by Slafter, Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell)
