Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Manfred Caliebe. Dukus Horant: Studien zu seiner literarischen Tradition. Philologische Studien und Quellen, 70. Berlin: Erich Schmidt.

Demonstrates the existence of traditional narrative patterns in the Dukus Horant and argues that the fabric of typical scenes and formulaic diction indicates a recent oral provenance. Sees the manuscript of 1382 as a copy close to an originally written text that itself derived from oral tradition. Reviews related scholarship and discusses the question of orality in Chapter 5 ("Poetische Struktur und Mündliche Überlieferung im Horant-Epos," pp. 106-29).
Area: MHG