oral literature
2.Before the conventional New Zealand literature came into being, a unique oral literature had already existed in the native Maori people.
3.This long-scattered oral literature is becoming a systematic, monumental literary work for the first time.
5.Being mostly oral, only a small part of this literature survives in manuscripts, and most of them are short pieces of poetry or prose about war, seafaring and Biblical stories.
6.“Classical Cannon and Oral Tradition: A Historical Glossary of Epic Studies in 20th Century”. Studies of Ethnic Literature, No.3, 2002. pp.3~10.
7.The entire body of religious law and learning including both sacred literature and oral tradition.
8.Dodson TB , Kaban LB. Recommendations for managementof trigeminal nerve defects based on a critical appraisal ofthe literature[J ] . J Oral Maxillofac Surg , 1997 , 55(12) :1380.
