The Daemon in the Wood A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns (Publications of the Milman Parry Collection: Monograph series no.1).Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1978. hardcover, 8vo. Pp.454; 68 Figs, in the text. Book Condition: Very Good. Shelfwear to Edges only slightly bumped. Green cloth with gilt on spine. No DJ. considerable amount of interior pencil annotations (which I could be persuaded to erase) and some slight speckling to Page edges. Albert Lord writing about oral traditional stories and their meanings in his foreword to David E. Bynum's book "The Daemon in the Wood: A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns" says (1978: xvii): "Many people ... in their thinking about tradition go no further back than two generations. To them the common phrase handed down from generation to generation" stops with grandparents. If one does not restrict the process in that way but carries it back very literally to time immemorial
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