Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Alain Renoir. "Point of View and Design for Terror in Beowulf." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 63:154-67. Rpt. in The Beowulf Poet: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Donald K. Fry, Jr. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968. pp. 154-66.

Traces the striking cinematographic effect of Grendel's approach to Heorot to the oral traditional nature of the poem.
Area: OE