John Miles Foley | Academic Influence

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John Miles Foley

Literature

#383

World Rank

#1047

Historical Rank

#194

USA Rank

Classical Studies

#9

World Rank

#16

Historical Rank

#3

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Philology

#44

World Rank

#156

Historical Rank

#5

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John Miles Foley's Degrees

Bachelors Classical Philology University of Notre Dame

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According to Wikipedia, John Miles Foley was a scholar of comparative oral tradition, particularly medieval and Old English literature, Homer and Serbian epic. He was the founder of the academic journal Oral Tradition and the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri, where he was Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English and W. H. Byler Endowed Chair in the Humanities.

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John Miles Foley's Published Works

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The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995) (224)
How to read an oral poem (2002) (198)
The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology (1989) (166)
Immanent Art: From Structure to Meaning in Traditional Oral Epic@@@The Singer of Tales in Performance (1994) (163)
A companion to ancient epic (2005) (137)
Traditional Oral Epic: The Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song (1993) (136)
Oral-Formulaic Theory and Research: An Introduction and Annotated Bibliography (1984) (84)
Homer's Traditional Art (1999) (83)
Word-Power, Performance, and Tradition (1992) (47)
Oral Tradition and the Internet: Pathways of the Mind (2012) (44)
Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt (2008) (42)
Teaching Oral Traditions (2001) (41)
Comparative Research on Oral Traditions: A Memorial for Milman Parry (1987) (40)
Oral Tradition and its Implications (1997) (38)
Gingival and dental complications of orotracheal intubation. (1976) (37)
Oral tradition in literature : interpretation in context (1987) (36)
Oral Traditional Literature: A Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord (1981) (35)
Epea and grammata : oral and written communication in ancient Greece (2001) (29)
Oral Tradition and the Internet (2012) (25)
Epic as genre (2004) (23)
"Reading" Homer through Oral Tradition (2007) (20)
From Oral Performance to Paper-Text to Cyber-Edition (2006) (19)
The Power of the Word: Healing Charms as an Oral Genre (1978) (19)
The Daemon in the Wood: A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns (1979) (17)
What's in a Sign? (1999) (17)
Gia mia poihtikh tou ellhnikou dhmotikou tragoudiouThe Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology (1989) (16)
De gustibus : essays for Alain Renoir (1992) (15)
Traditional Oral Epic: The 'Odyssey', 'Beowulf', and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song (1993) (15)
Tradition and the Collective Talent: Oral Epic, Textual Meaning, and Receptionalist Theory (1986) (13)
Oral Traditional Literature (1982) (13)
The wedding of Mustajbey's son Bećirbey as performed by Halil Bajgorić (2004) (13)
Guslar and Aoidos: traditional register in South Slavic and homeric epic: traditional register in South Slavic and homeric epic (1996) (12)
Literary art and oral tradition in Old English and Serbian poetry (1983) (12)
Basque Oral Poetry Championship (2008) (11)
The traditional oral audience (1977) (10)
Individual Poet and Epic Tradition: Homer as Legendary Singer (1998) (9)
Oral-formulaic theory : a folklore casebook (1991) (8)
Oral Texts, Traditional Texts: Poetics and Critical Methods* (1981) (8)
Signs, texts, and oral tradition (1996) (8)
Christ 164–213: A structural approach to the speech boundaries in “Advent Lyric VII” (1975) (7)
How Genres Leak in Traditional Verse (2003) (5)
Sixteen Moments of Silence in Homer (1995) (5)
Verbal Marketplaces and the Oral-Literate Continuum (2010) (4)
Homer and Rhapsodic Competition in Performance (2006) (4)
A computer analysis of metrical patterns inBeowulf (1978) (4)
2 Oral Theory and Medieval Literature (2011) (4)
RHETORIC AND SOCIETY (2001) (4)
The Poet's Self-Interruption in Andreas (1995) (4)
Oral Formulaic Theory (1990) (3)
Contemporary Readings in Psychology (1970) (3)
Man, Muse, and Story: Psychohistorical Patterns in Oral Epic Poetry (1987) (3)
The Epic Voice (2002) (3)
Oral‐Derived Text (2011) (3)
South Slavic Oral Epic and the Homeric Question (2015) (3)
'Udovica Jana': A Case Study Of An Oral Performance (1976) (3)
The Traditional Structure of Ibro Bašić's "Alagić Alija and Velagić Selim" (1978) (3)
The Price of Narrative Fiction: Genre, Myth, and Meaning in Moby-Dick and The Odyssey (1984) (3)
Genre(s) in the Making: Diction, Audience and Text in the Old English Seafarer (1983) (3)
3. Traditional Signs and Homeric Art (1997) (3)
Testing Whether a Common Representation Explains the Effects of Viewing Context on Color Appearance (2002) (2)
The textualization of South Slavic oral epic and its implications for oral-derived epic (2000) (2)
Challenges in Comparative Oral Epic (2012) (2)
The Theory of Oral Composition. History and Methodology. Folkloristics (1989) (2)
Interfaces of the Word: Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture by Walter J. Ong, S.J. (review) (2016) (2)
Oral-Formulaic Theory: A Folklore Casebook (1991) (2)
Albert Camus: The Rebel (2008) (2)
Conservative Lumbering at Sewanee, Tennessee (2010) (1)
Thomas Pyles: Selected Essays on English Usage (1980) (1)
The Male Prepuce (1961) (1)
Levels of Oral Traditional Structure in Serbo-Croatian Epic (1983) (1)
From Performance to Paper to the Web: New Ways of (Re-)Presenting Told Stories (2004) (1)
The Historical Origins of Flann O'Brien's Jem Casey (2005) (1)
The ritual nature of traditional oral poetry, metrics, music, and matter in the Anglo-Saxon, Homeric Greek, and Serbo-Croatian poetries (1974) (1)
Foley's Books: California Rebels, Beats and Radicals (2000) (1)
Macpherson's Ossian: Trying to Hit a Moving Target (2002) (1)
The Oral SingerinContext:Halil Bajgorić, Guslar* (1978) (1)
EDITING AND TRANSLATING TRADITIONAL ORAL EPIC: THE SOUTH SLAVIC SONGS AND HOMER (2002) (1)
Albert Camus and Political Violence (2008) (1)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 12/2 (1997) (1997) (0)
St. Louis housekeepers helping the disabled also helped themselves. (1984) (0)
Camus and Sartre (2008) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 19/2, 2004) (2004) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 10/1 (1995) (1995) (0)
Albert Camus: Camus and Combat (2008) (0)
A Bibliography of Publications by Albert Bates Lord (2010) (0)
Albert Camus: Bibliography (2008) (0)
Global Positioning System (2017) (0)
South Slavic Heroic Epic (2011) (0)
The Theory of Oral Composition: History and Methodology@@@Oral-Formulaic Theory: A Folklore Casebook (1993) (0)
Editor's Column (2006) (0)
Albert Camus: The absurd (2008) (0)
With this issue . . . " A record of Oral tradition (2012) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 21/1, 2006) (2006) (0)
Explaining a joke: pelt kid and tale of Orašac (1994) (0)
Mircea Eliade, The forbidden forest: a novel. Trans, by Mac Linscott Ricketts and Mary Park Stevenson. Preface to the English ed. by Mircea Eliade. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978, pp. xv+596 (1979) (0)
(J. M.) Redfield Nature and culture in the Iliad: the tragedy of Hector . Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1975. Pp. xvi + 287. £4·80. (1977) (0)
eCompanions (2008) (0)
On Jason's Review of J. M. Foley: "Oral-Formulaic Research and Scholarship" (1986) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 11/2 (1996) (1996) (0)
Albert Lord and the study of oral traditions [videorecording] (2011) (0)
Editor's Column (2011) (0)
Editor's Column (2004) (0)
Neither Victims nor Executioners: Camus as Public Intellectual (2016) (0)
Editor's Column (2012) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 17/2, 2002) (2002) (0)
Albert Camus: Camus and political violence (2008) (0)
Traditional History in South Slavic Oral Epic (2009) (0)
Oral Tradition: A Festschrift for Walter J. Ong (1989) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 14/2 (1999) (1999) (0)
14 or 40: The Singer or the Editor? (1999) (0)
Books Received (1998) (0)
Editor's Column (2007) (0)
The Epic Cycle and oral tradition (2015) (0)
SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE (2001) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 16/1, 2001) (2001) (0)
Albert Camus: Notes (2008) (0)
Editor’s Column (2009) (0)
New Developments in Detection Theory. (1992) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 13/2 (1998) (1998) (0)
Books Received (2000) (0)
Editor's Column (2005) (0)
Introduction (Oral Tradition, 2/1, 1987) (1987) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 23/2, 2008) (2008) (0)
Oral Genealogies and Official Records: A Comparative Approach Using Serbian Data (1983) (0)
Balkanistica: Occasional Papers in Southeast European Studies. III, 1976 (1979) (0)
The Prevalaece of Poetry in Oral Tradition (1977) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 23/1, 2008) (2008) (0)
Albert Camus: Introduction (2008) (0)
Fringe Benefits of Cataract Surgery (1979) (0)
Editor's Column (2004) (0)
LITERATURE, ART, AND DRAMA (2001) (0)
Albert Camus: Conclusion (2008) (0)
Ruth Finnegan Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance, and Social Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977, pp. xii + 299 + 4 photos (1978) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 1/3 (1986) (1986) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 21/2, 2006) (2006) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 6/2-3 (1991) (1991) (0)
Glad to be here: Lessons in high performance from the Blue Angels (2013) (0)
Oral Dictated Texts (2011) (0)
Oral Tradition into Textuality (2018) (0)
Albert Camus: Camus and Algeria (2008) (0)
Editor's Column (1983) (0)
Editor's Column (2010) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 25/2, 2010) (2010) (0)
Camus and Rousseau: freedom, justice and ‘the despotism of the general will’ (2021) (0)
Publications Received (1962) (0)
Editor's column (Oral Tradition, 1/2 (1986) (1986) (0)
Editor's Column (2008) (0)

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