Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Stephen Gilman. "The Poetry of the Poema and the Music of the Cantar." In Hispanic Studies in Honor of Edmund de Chasca, a special issue of Philological Quarterly, 51, i:1-11.

Discusses significant portions of de Chasca 1972, warning against what he feels is the latter's inappropriate application of Parry and Lord's work to the Cid, particularly in light of the irregularity of its meter. Suggests instead that some as yet undiscovered kind of oral composition was employed.
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