Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Patricia Arant. "Concurrence of Patterns in the Russian Bylina." Journal of the Folklore Institute, 7:80-88.

Illustrates the traditional solution to the problem of moving from one story-pattern to another in three of Rjabinin's texts: he interposes between stories the theme of the hero stopping to spend the night on his journey home(a "point of thematic concurrence"). Stresses the innate conservatism of oral tradition.
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