John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author and editor of many books, including Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition and coeditor, with Allen J. Frantzen, of Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity.

"Linking the performed word of the present with the textual record of the past, Homo Narrans brings together, in mutually productive ways, what have often been contrasted-folklore and literature. This readable and accessible exploration suggests that narrative and narrating are essential ways humanity fashions and refashions itself."-Mary Ellen Brown, Indiana University "A well-documented and unusually readable and sensible synthesis of much of the work that has been done on oral culture."-MLR "A welcome interweaving of areas too often and too simplistically segregated: folklore and literature, oral tradition and written tradition, performance and text."-Choice

John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author and editor of many books, including Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition and coeditor, with Allen J. Frantzen, of Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity.

"Linking the performed word of the present with the textual record of the past, Homo Narrans brings together, in mutually productive ways, what have often been contrasted-folklore and literature. This readable and accessible exploration suggests that narrative and narrating are essential ways humanity fashions and refashions itself."-Mary Ellen Brown, Indiana University "A well-documented and unusually readable and sensible synthesis of much of the work that has been done on oral culture."-MLR "A welcome interweaving of areas too often and too simplistically segregated: folklore and literature, oral tradition and written tradition, performance and text."-Choice

John D. Niles is Frederic G. Cassidy Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author and editor of many books, including Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition and coeditor, with Allen J. Frantzen, of Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity.

"Linking the performed word of the present with the textual record of the past, Homo Narrans brings together, in mutually productive ways, what have often been contrasted-folklore and literature. This readable and accessible exploration suggests that narrative and narrating are essential ways humanity fashions and refashions itself."-Mary Ellen Brown, Indiana University "A well-documented and unusually readable and sensible synthesis of much of the work that has been done on oral culture."-MLR "A welcome interweaving of areas too often and too simplistically segregated: folklore and literature, oral tradition and written tradition, performance and text."-Choice