Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Edmund V. de Chasca. Estructura y forma en "El Poema de Mio Cid" (hacia una explicación de la imitación poetica de la historia en la epopeya castellana). University of Iowa Studies in Spanish Language and Literature, 9. Iowa City and Mexico: University of Iowa Press and Editorial Patria.

Influenced by Menendez Pidal, this study assumes that the Cid is the collective product of medieval Spanish troub adours working within an established oral tradition. Most of the discussion of oral material per se is in the first three chapters, the balance of the text arguing for the artistic integrity and complexity of the poem despite its collective oral nature.< p>
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