Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Samuel G. Armistead. "The Structure of the Refundición de las Mocedades de Rodrigo." Romance Philology, 17:338-45.

As an alternative to Menéndez Pidal's scheme of episodic division, he proposes a single-cantar structure, observing that "the Refundición is a profoundly anti-traditional work" and that "its author seems to have delighted in wilfully altering the epic heritage on which his narrative rests" (345).
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