I-IV -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Text as process and practice: the textualization of oral epics -- European epics -- The writing of the Iliad and the Odyssey -- The textualization of South Slavic oral epic and its implications for oral-derived epic -- Performance, textualization, and textuality of "elegy" in Old Norse -- Turkic and Siberian epics -- Silencing the voice of the singer: problems and strategies in the editing of Turkic oral epics -- Textology and epic texts from Siberia and beyond -- "I lift you up, the dry throats'' - on Nanaj shamanic epic -- Indian epics -- The textualization of the Sanskrit epics -- Text and context in the textualization of Tulu oral epics -- African epics -- Authenticity and oral performance: textualizing the epics of Africa for Western audiences -- The textualization of Swahili epics -- Creating an epic: from apprenticeship to publication -- The narrator as an editor -- North-American and Oceanian epics -- Sung epic and Native American ethnopoetics -- Generic models, entextualization and creativity: epic tradition on the Southern Cook Islands -- Index -- List of contributors -- 391-392