Oral History and Revenge in Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"
Stories are the recordings of history and serve as reminders of personal and cultural struggle. In The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition, Gisli Sigurdsson writes that before the development of written language, oral history "became a kind of knowledge bank" (57) in which stories o...
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University of Edinburgh
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/article/view/672 |