| 单词 | oral literature |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoral literature oral literature n. poems, stories, songs, etc., passed down through the generations by word of mouth; cf. orature n. ΚΠ 1815 N. Amer. Rev. 1 313 This country has a literature... But it is not the least indebted for it to the labour of its colonies. I now refer to the oral literature of its aborigines. 1898 S. A. Brooke Eng. Lit. from Beginnings to Norman Conquest ii. 42 This was the origin of the early unhistoric sagas, like that of Beowulf, and such a saga was the highest form of the oral literature of the German tribes. 1953 S. A. Brown in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 40/1 The Negro was contributing..through what we call oral literature—folk literature. 2013 in M. Turin et al. Oral Lit. in Digital Age Introd. p. xiii The term ‘oral literature’ broadly includes ritual texts, curative chants, epic poems, folk tales, creation stories, songs, myths, spells, legends, proverbs, riddles, tongue-twisters, recitations and historical narratives. < as lemmas |
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