Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Denys Thompson. Distant Voices: Poetry of the Preliterate. London and Totowa, NJ: Heinemann and Rowman & Littlefield.

Aware of the work of the Chadwicks (1932-40), Bowra (1962c), and Havelock (1963), he discusses in the introduction (pp. 1-13) the poetic language, style, and audience typical of oral literature. The remainder of the volume presents selections from a wide variety of oral traditions in English translation.
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