Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Kenneth Adams. "The Metrical Irregularity of the Cantar de Mio Cid: A Restatement Based on the Evidence of Names, Epithets, and Some Other Aspects of Formulaic Diction." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies,49:109-19.

Sees the Cid's metrical character as a condition of the "original" work rather than as a latter-day phenomenon of scribal transmission. Finds the origin of such irregularity in the formulaic structure of the diction.
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