Meanings of oral literature in English

She grew up in a conservative Catholic environment and went on to study history, oral literature and linguistics.

The stories here given cover a wide range of subjects, but are fair examples of the oral literature of the Blackfeet.

But its legends and records are known to have existed in the form of oral literature from a much more ancient time.

Darach and Réamonn have a deep understanding of mythological material and oral literature, having both produced critically acclaimed versions of The Táin.

Their oral literature is, however, abundant, though it is only within quite recent years that it has become known to America and Europe.

While surviving as oral literature for generations, the rhymes began to be published in books especially created for children in the early eighteenth century.

For a long time, the Maori did not have a written language, so genealogy was handed down through oral literature and represented in art works.

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(The term oral literature is regarded as a sad oxymoron by linguists who specialize in oral cultures.)

Oral literature, popular legends, ballads and rites, are all stifled in one word-superstition; and popular antiquities have become "fables" and "folk-lore."