Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Thorlac Turville-Petre. The Alliterative Revival. Totowa and Ipswich: Rowman & Littlefield and D.S. Brewer.

In "The Theory of Oral Tradition" (pp. 13-17) and later remarks on collocations, set phrases, and formulas (pp. 83-92), he denies the application of oral-formulaic theory to the ME poems of the Alliterative Revival, preferring to regard the style as a traditional but literary method of composition.
Area: ME