oral literature

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Norman Douglas cottoned onto the fact that children’s games were a source of oral literature that lay outside of other kinds, and had not been studied before.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

Unsurprisingly, the performances – given that the storytellers are not allowed to use notes – tend towards the raw and unstructured; they also occasionally blur the distinction between oral literature and stand-up comedy.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2010

But the purpose of both was to preserve intact the rhythms and patterns of a primitive, oral literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Until recently, limericks were mostly unprintable and constituted one of the few forms of modern oral literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

He expressed himself as greatly interested in the discovery of an oral literature among the Indians, in the form of imaginative legends.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe