Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Karl Meister. Die Homerische Kunstsprache. Leipzig: Jablonowski. Rpt. Stuttgart: B.G. Teubner, 1966.

The classic statement of the Kunstsprache (or "art-language") theory: that Homeric phraseology_under the influence of meter and linguistic constraints_was a fully developed, specialized language in its own right. Influential on and often quoted by Parry.
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