Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Heda Jason. Ethnopoetry: Form, Content, and Function. Forum Theologiae Linguisticae. Interdisziplinäre Schriftenreihe für Theologie und Linguistik, 11. Bonn-Rottgen: Linguistica Biblica.

Treats a wide variety of oral traditions and genres, concentrating on patterns of form and content and describing the social function of "ethnopoetry." Depends on a good deal of Parry-Lord Theory, taken as presented in Lord 1960 with frequent references to the SCHS series.
Area: CP, SC, TH