John Miles Foley is William H. Byler Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Curators' Professor of Classical Studies and English at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and the editor and founder of the journal Oral Tradition. Among his recent books are Traditional Oral Epic (1990) and The Singer of Tales in Performance (1995).
“John Miles Foley’s Homer’s Traditional Art is an important book
for anyone interested in the application of oral theory to early
Greek epic.”—Susan C. Shelmerdine Classical and Modern
Literature
“No one interested in Homer can afford to ignore this book.”—Susan
C. Shelmerdine Classical and Modern Literature
“His fluency in an eclectic but thoroughly integrated range of
theoretical stances enhances the book’s utility as a methodological
resource and its effectiveness as a guide for discovering the
poetics that enable our reception of oral tradition verbal art
forms such as the Homeric poems.”—James Wells Journal of Folklore
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