Acknowledgments.Note on Transcription.1.Introduction: Genre, Performance, and the Production of Intertextuality.2. The Verse Is Thus: Icelandic Stories About Magical Poems.3. I'll Give You Three Guesses: Scots Riddle-Tales And The Dynamics Of Genre.4. What Shall We Give You?: Calibrations Of Genre In A Mexican Market.5. Bell, You Get The Spotted Pup: First Person Narratives Of A Texas Storyteller.6. That I Can't Tell You: Negotiating Performance With A Nova Scotia Fisherman.7. Go, My Reciter, Recite My Words: Mediation, Tradition, Authority.Epilogue.References.Index
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Richard Bauman (2004) studied this question.