Livre - Recreating the oral text : Tradition-based literary epic in Europe, 1762-1904

This is a preprint solely for distribution among the participants of the conference on the "textualization of Oral Epics" organized for Folklore Fellows in Oral Epics at Turku University, Turku, Finland on June 27-29, 1996. It will be printed later. Since the author may change the text, quotations should be taken from the final, printed version.